The original definition of a ‘Southern Belle’ was a daughter of a white wealthy elitist Southern plantation owner from the 19th century. That time has passed, and that version is gone. So, now, we have the ‘watered down’ version that is slowly dying as well… Here is the hard truth that many southerners don’t want …
“Our loved and lost, our blessed dead, all lost with our cause, and all died so vainly, the empty chairs by the fireside, almost every family clad in the sad garments of morning.” Annie E. Coulson Harper was born in 1840 to prominent clothing merchant Mr. John S. Coulson and his wife Elizabeth in Natchez, …
The following was published in the Southern Literary Messenger Vol. 1, No. 4 in December of 1834. [The following letter, written by a distinguished President of the oldest College in Virginia, has been already or rather formerly before the public;—but no apology is necessary for transferring it to the columns of the “ Messenger.” Its …
