Burwell, Letitia M.

Letitia M. Burwell was an American Southern writer; public information about her life, including her birth and death dates, is limited. Two of her works are included in this collection, both centering on Southern plantation life before the American Civil War: A Girl's Life in Virginia before the War and Plantation Reminiscences. The former recalls the everyday life of a Virginia plantation from a young girl's perspective, while the latter continues the same theme, revisiting the people and events of plantation days. These writings are distinctly personal memoirs, sketching the society of the Old South through an eyewitness's observations. They serve as first-hand narrative sources for understanding Southern family life and plantation culture of the period, and are often cited by later readers studying Southern memory and pre-Civil War social history.