Jeannie McWherter (jearmcwh@mars.utm.edu) from 170.143.229.102 at 09/29/98 08:57AM
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    I feel that there is too much emphasis put on the wealthy ladies of this time period. They were all I ever heard about. Mrs. Scott did an excellent job describing the women of the south. She talked about all the classes of women. She also talked about how all women had to work very hard. I was glad that she said this. When I studied southern women in previous years, the textbooks made it out that the upper-class women did not work. She gave me a whole new way of seeing the women of the south. I have always lived in Tennessee. I am just glad that someone finally stood up and said how the southern women really were in that time.