"The Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge" is the compelling story of an ordinary woman rising to meet extraordinary challenges in nineteenth-century Georgia. Dolly Lunt Burge's full life was remarkable for the range of roles she filled and the variety of her experiences. That her life coincided with critical transformations in America and that she recorded her experiences within this historical context make her diary all the more noteworthy.
Burge moved from Maine to Georgia with her physician husband in the 1840s. By the time she began her diary at age thirty, Dolly had lost her husband and her...
"The Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge" is the compelling story of an ordinary woman rising to meet extraordinary challenges in nineteenth-century Georgia....
