# Social Life in Old Virginia Before the War

Author: Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922; Cowles, Genevieve, 1871-1950 [Illustrator]; Cowles, Maude, 1871-1905 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55910

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Social+Life+in+Old+Virginia+Before+the+War+Page&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

No one can be more fully aware of the shortcomings of this brief sketch of Social Life in the South before the War than is the writer. Its slightness might readily have excused it from republication. And yet it has seemed well to let it go forth on its own account, to take such place as it may in the great world of books. One reason is the partiality of a few friends who have desired to see it in this form. Another is the absolute ignorance of the outside world of the real life of the South in old times, and the desire to correct the picture for the benefit of the younger generation of Southerners themselves. One of the factors in that life was slavery. The most renowned picture of Southe...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-life-in-old-virginia-before-the-war-55910/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-life-in-old-virginia-before-the-war-55910/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-life-in-old-virginia-before-the-war-55910/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/social-life-in-old-virginia-before-the-war-55910/chapters/4/index.md)