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Palmetto Leaves
About this book
In 1867, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin settled in a small cottage in Mandarin, Florida, overlooking the St. Johns River. She had promised her Boston publisher another novel but was so taken with northeast Florida that she produced instead a series of sketches of the land and the people which she submitted in 1872 under the title Palmetto Leaves.
Stowe describes life in Florida in the latter half of the 19th century—"a tumble-down, wild, panicky kind of life—this general happy-go-luckiness which Florida inculcates." Her idyllic sketches of picnicking, sailing, and river touring expeditions and simple stories of events and people in this tropical "winter summer" land became the first unsolicited promotional writing to interest northern tourists in Florida.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Nobodyâs Dog
- A Flowery January in Florida
- The Wrong Side of the Tapestry
- A Letter to the Girls
- A Water-Coach, and a Ride in it
- Picnicking up Julington
- Magnolia
- Yellow Jessamines
- âFlorida for Invalidsâ
- Swamps and Orange-Trees
- Letter-Writing
- Magnolia Week
- Buying Land in Florida
- Our Experience in Crops
- May in Florida
- St. Augustine
- Our Neighbor over the Way
- The Grand Tour up River
- Old Cudjo and the Angel
- The Laborers of the South
- Index