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Busy Moments of an Idle Woman is a collection of five stories about the social lives and romantic exploits of women in the Antebellum era. Originally published in 1853, this edition has been edited and updated with a new foreword by Angela Hanyak.

Susan Petigru King wrote and published virtually all of her novels and short stories just before and during the American civil war, although her fiction deals neither with slavery nor sectional politics. Set in her native Charleston and its surrounding plantations, King's novels explore the social life and sexual politics of South Carolina's privileged antebellum elite. In the tradition of nineteenth-century domestic novels, King's writings chronicle courtships and marriages, love and jealousy. The republication of these long-neglected novels will introduce contemporary readers to the...