St. Elmo and Southern Women

Ep. 12: Augusta Jane Evans's St. Elmo was one of the best selling novels of the 19th Century. You would not know that today, but for generations, women read it and handed it down to their daughters and female family members. Why is it blacklisted? You'll hear.
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Thank you, Professor. Anyone looking for a return to traditionalism should read this.

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Excellent work, Professor McClanahan!

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Great video. I just downloaded all of her books. We need more women today like Mrs Augusta.

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I went to St. Elmo Elementary School in Columbus, Georgia, briefly in 1962. Any connection?

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St. Elmo elementary is in the St. Elmo area, in which the house St. Elmo is located.

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Helen Keller (Tuscumbia, Alabama) was no less of an intelligent, accomplished Southern woman. However, she was an ardent suffragist.
The idea that any culture is intrinsically ideological is flawed.
Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, the North, etc., etc. were all changed by industrialization and other forms of economic development.
The Confederacy’s crash program of industrialization was changing Southern society. Also, Confederate emancipation almost certainly would’ve radically altered Southern culture had it been fully implemented. Nevertheless, the survival of Southern culture depended on these measures.
“Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All societies are constantly evolving. Indeed a culture survives when it has enough confidence in its past and enough say in its future to maintain its spirit and essence through all the changes it will inevitably undergo.” - Wade Davis

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