Palmetto-Leaves (Annotated)

Download or read book Palmetto-Leaves (Annotated) written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palmetto Leaves is a memoir and travel guide written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about her winters in the town of Mandarin, Florida, published in 1873. Already famous for having written Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Stowe came to Florida after the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865). She purchased a plantation near Jacksonville as a place for her son to recover from the injuries he had received as a Union soldier and to make a new start in life. After visiting him, she became so enamored with the region she purchased a cottage and orange grove for herself and wintered there until 1884, even though the plantation failed within its first year. Parts of Palmetto Leaves appeared in a newspaper published by Stowe's brother, as a series of letters and essays about life in northeast Florida.