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Women’s Diaries and Letters of the South
The 2013 demise of founding editor Carol Bleser has initiated changes in the leadership and direction of the University of South Carolina Press’s Women’s Diaries and Letters of the South Series. Bleser was a founder of the Southern Association of Women Historians, president of the Southern Historical Association, and author or editor of distinguished volumes of letters and diaries. She represented the American Historical Association on the National Historical Publications and Records Commission where she tirelessly supported letterpress publications. In 1995 she established the Women’s Diaries and Letters of the South Series at the University of South Carolina Press.
Under her management, twenty eight volumes of primary sources have appeared in the Women’s Diaries and Letters of the South Series. These volumes include editions of letters, diaries, memoirs, published and unpublished literary works, newspaper essays, oral history interviews, all of which were created by women residing in the American South from the colonial era to the present day.
Two talented historians and documentary editors, Melissa Walker (Converse College) and Giselle Roberts (La Trobe University) and have accepted the University of South Carolina Press’s invitation to assume editorship of the Women’s Diaries and Letters of the South Series.
Melissa Walker is the George Dean Johnson, Jr. Professor of History at Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina. Her first book, All We Knew Was to Farm: Rural Women in the Upcountry South, 1919-1941 (John Hopkins University Press, 2000) was awarded The Southern Association for Women Historians’ Willie Lee Rose Prize for the best book in Southern history authored by a woman. Her collection of oral histories, Country Women Cope with Hard Times (University of South Carolina Press, 2004), was among the first titles in the Women’s Diaries and Letters Series to address a twentieth-century topic.
Giselle Roberts is an Honorary Research Associate in History at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Her publications include The Confederate Belle (University of Missouri Press, 2003) and The Correspondence of Sarah Morgan and Francis Warrington Dawson, with Selected Editorials Written by Sarah Morgan for the Charleston News and Courier (University of Georgia Press, 2004). Her latest book, A New Southern Woman: The Correspondence of Eliza Lucy Irion Neilson, 1871-1883 (University of South Carolina Press, 2012) is the most recent title in the Women’s Diaries and Letters Series.
Sharing the tasks of editorship, Roberts and Walker will serve as recruiters of projects for inclusion in the Women’s Diaries and Letters Series and collaborate with Press staff to evaluate completed manuscripts and well-crafted book proposals. Authors at work on documentary editing projects within the remit of the series are encouraged to contact Roberts, Walker or University Press staff for further information. Guidelines for submission are available at the Press website: http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/
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