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title	:	Letters By Lamplight : A Woman's View of Everyday Life in South Texas, 1873-1883
author	:	Myers, Lois E.
publisher	:	Baylor University
isbn10 | asin	:
print isbn13	:	9780918954695
ebook isbn13	:	9780585159461
language	:	English
subject	Stoner, Anna Louisa Wellington--Correspondence, Women pioneers--Texas, South--Correspondence, Texas, South--Social life and customs, Frontier and pioneer life--Texas, South.
publication date	:	1991
lcc	:	F391.M94 1991eb
ddc	:	976.4/061
subject	:	Stoner, Anna Louisa Wellington--Correspondence, Women pioneers--Texas, South--Correspondence, Texas, South--Social life and customs, Frontier and pioneer life--Texas, South.

Page i Letters by Lamplight

Page ii Anna Louisa Wellington Stoner (18571953), 1914. Reproduced by permission of Mary Margaret Stoner McLean, Arlington, Texas.

Page iii Letters by Lamplight A Woman's View of Everyday Life in South Texas, 18731883 Lois E. Myers Baylor University Press Waco, Texas

Page iv First paperback edition: 1998 / ISBN 0-918954-69-X Copyright 1991 by BAYLOR UNIVERSITY PRESS Waco, Texas 76798 All Rights Reserved Excerpts from Wellington-Stoner-McLean Papers are quoted by permission of The Texas Collection, Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Portions of Chapters 1 and 2 appear in Lois E. Myers, "He Couldn't Get along Without a Wife: A Woman's View of Married Life in Victoria County, 18771881," The Journal of South Texas 1 (Spring 1988): 1133. The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition of this work as follows: Myers, Lois E., 1946 Letters by lamplight : a woman's view of everyday life in South Texas, 18731883 / Lois E. Myers. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-918954-53-3 (alk. paper) 1. Stoner, Anna Louisa WellingtonCorrespondence. 2. Women pioneersTexasCorrespondence. 3. Texas Social life and customs. 4. Frontier and pioneer life Texas. I. Title. F391.M94 1991 976.4'061dc2O90-85476 CIP Cover drawing by A. Kay Jacobs. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper.

Page v Contents Preface vii Introduction 3 1 Write Often, Telling Everything Refugio County, 18521877 11 2 A Smiling Providence Victoria County, November 1877September 1881 45 3 A New Lease on Life Uvalde County, October 1881March 1882 93 4 Grace to Conquer Edwards County, April 1882March 1884 133 Afterword 171 Appendix: Genealogy of Anna Louisa Wellington and William Clinton Stoner 179 Notes 184 Works Cited 203 Index 211

Page vii Preface The study of the past is much more complex than once thought. Social historians have come to realize that history happens to everyone, regardless of age, race, class, or gender. They are now asking new questions and turning to new resources in order to understand the relationships between historical change and ordinary lives and everyday experience. In order to comprehend the lives of non-privileged persons, who because of legal, social, political, or economic disadvantage left behind little public record, historians investigate private testimony, revealed in both written and oral narratives. Throughout Texas history, women told their life storiesto each other, to their daughters, to their granddaughtersthrough journals, diaries, letters, autobiographies, and oral tradition. Many personal narratives of Texas women became lost through the years because they were not valued or protected, but some have come to light from the depths of trunks stored away in attics, from shoe boxes in garages, and from shelves of library archives. As more and more evidence of the lives of individual Texas women surfaces, social historians can begin unraveling the connections between women and history. Because women's lives intertwine with home, family, and social group, learning their history also reveals the past experiences of children, families, domestic life, kinship relations, homemaking skills, courtship, widowhood, and social, charitable, educational, and religious groups.

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