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Roots and Ever Green: The Selected Letters of Ina Dillard Russell. Edited by Sally Russell. Southern Voices from the Past. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxii, 357. $34.95, ISBN 0-8203-- 2138-9.)
Published in the series Southern Voices from the Past, this collection of letters by Ina Dillard Russell provides valuable insight into the lives of rural women in the New South. Author Sally Russell, a granddaughter of Ina Russell, culled this collection from over 3,000 letters found among family members, at the homeplace, and in the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies at the University of Georgia. The selected letters span the most active years of Ina's correspondence, from a young wife living in Winder, Georgia, in...