Marion Harland tells her grandsons about her own girlhood in rural Virginia in the years before the Civil War: the tragedy of a doll named Rozillah, a haunted room, her first lie and what came of it, her pets, a prize beet and a reading of Frankenstein that went badly wrong. Enslaved people are part of the household she describes, and her view of them is that of a plantation daughter.
A warm, vivid memoir of a vanished childhood, best read with a clear eye on what that world rested upon. Download the free EPUB.