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N. B. (Nancy Bostick) De Saussure
1837–1915
A South Carolina memoirist, she left a firsthand account of plantation life before the Civil War and of the upheaval that followed. Her writing preserves family memory while offering a vivid window into a vanished world.
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Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War
by N. B. (Nancy Bostick) De Saussure
About the author
Born in 1837, Nancy Bostick De Saussure is best known for Old Plantation Days (1909), a memoir drawn from her memories of life in South Carolina before the Civil War. The book was published under the name N. B. De Saussure and survives in major public-domain collections, which confirm both her authorship and her dates, 1837–1915.
Written late in life and framed for a younger generation, Old Plantation Days looks back on childhood, family life, marriage, and the disruptions of war and Reconstruction. Today it is valued as a personal historical narrative: intimate and readable, but also very much shaped by the viewpoint of a white Southern woman remembering the antebellum era from decades later.
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