SOURCE: Scott, Anne Firor. “Discontent.” In The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930, pp. 46-79. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1970.
In the following essay, Scott documents the dissatisfaction of many Southern women with the restrictive roles assigned to them in the Old South.
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