By Sarah Barnwell Elliott

Duel for honor or sue for damages? Lynch the accused or drag him off to face the Law? Marry the cousin you don’t love or find your own way in the world? These are the dilemmas faced as the Old South gives way to modernity at the turn of the 20th century in this novella and six short stories by the once noted, now all but forgotten Sarah Barnwell Elliott. Sada, as she preferred to be called, made her reputation in portraying the local color and dialects of her native south. Along the way she left a group of stories about a clash of the old and the new, particularly in her strong female characters. Hers is a bold voice that speaks clearly across the generations in support of a woman’s self-sufficiency.

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Paperback: 226 pages
Published: October 1, 2012
ISBN-10: 0988304414
ISBN-13: 978-0988304413
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches

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About Sarah Barnwell Elliott

Like the strong female characters in her novels, Sarah Elliott’s own life cut against the grain of the cultural expectations of the Southern aristocracy into which she was born. She is almost always described as the daughter of The Rt. Rev. Stephen Elliott, Jr. the first Episcopal Bishop of Georgia. Her relationship with her father did significantly shape her thinking as one can read so clearly in this her first novel. Yet Sada, as she preferred to be called, was very much her own person.Born the fifth of six children to the Bishop, Sarah Bull Barnwell Elliott (November 29, 1848 – August 30, 1928) entered a life of privilege. She counted four colonial governors among her recent ancestors. In the shadow of these noted men of their times grew a unique woman who defied social expectations to forge a substantial body of well-reviewed and widely read books together with shorter pieces in national magazines, many literary reviews, a biography, and a play.

She moved to the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee with her mother in 1871, the year after classes started at the university. Other than living in New York City from 1896 to 1904, she would live at Sewanee the remainder of her life. It was while living at Sewanee, when Sada was 31 years old, that D. Appleton Company of Chicago published The Felmeres. Following the success of this novel, she began to publish a number of short pieces.

The daughter and granddaughter of well known Southern aristocrats, she continued the Elliott legacy far beyond its antebellum trajectory. She was a product of the liberal education and the progressive household in which she was raised. Sada charted an independent course moving from writing to her petition calling on the Tennessee legislature to grant women the right to vote. She became a pivotal figure in the move for women’s suffrage.