# The Plantation Mistress

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- Book: [The Plantation Mistress](https://www.bookquiver.com/catherine-clinton/the-plantation-mistress) ([The Plantation Mistress.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/catherine-clinton/the-plantation-mistress.md))
- Authors: [Catherine Clinton](https://www.bookquiver.com/catherine-clinton)
- Publisher: pantheon
- ISBN: 978-03-9472-253-5
- Pages: 352
- Published: 1984-02-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing...