In 1866, when sixteen year old Margaret Hensley Royston began her journal, she had special need for a confidant. Even by nineteenth century standards of loss Maggie's life had been and would contnue to be filled with enormous sorrow. Maggie's diaries and extant family letters from the years 1866-1871 tell both her compelling personal story and about life in the Reconstruction Era South. Maggie's most passionate wish -- to remain with who was left of her family -- led her to make a decision which seems extraordinary to us today, yet when seen in the context of her peception made perfect sense.
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This work was published by the Sherman Preservation League Press, P.O. Box 159, Sherman, Texas, 75091-0159. The SPLP was set up as a branch of the Sherman Preservation League. This not-for-profit organization was created in 1975 to promote the preservation of the architectural heritage of Sherman, Texas, and especially of the C. S. Roberts HIstoric House Museum. The C. S. Roberts House is an Eastlake mansion built in 1896. 100% of the proceeds from our books go to the support of the League and the Museum. For more information, please call us at (903) 893-4067.
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Heather Palmer has worked as Director of the C. S. Roberts House, as Curator at several properties for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and as Historian at Blair House, the President's Guest House. She has taught college courses and elderhostels on historic editing, has served as an editor of a national magazine, and has authored hundreds of articles on nineteenth century history. Her books include three history workbooks for children and several history books.
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