Questions About Savannah (Savannah Quartet, #1)

by Eugenia Price

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Is it best to read these books in order or are they different stories?

Samm Seals IN ORDER THEYRE CHRONOLOGICAL.

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This came up when I was doing research on Eliza McQueen and Robert Mackay. Is there any relevant historical information in this book, or is it going to be weird to read about my ancestors like this?

Terri Hurst I found the historical information to be well-researched and accurate. Price wove all the stories together so well that even her fictional characters …moreI found the historical information to be well-researched and accurate. Price wove all the stories together so well that even her fictional characters seemed as real as those who actually existed. It seemed obvious to me that she loved the Mackays, and the way she wrote about them made me want to know them. I think it would be neat to read the books if you're descended from some of the main characters. I've always enjoyed historical fiction, and was living in Georgia when I first read her books; I've read them several times over the years and really enjoy visiting Savannah and seeing the homes and parks that played such a prominent part in her stories, not to mention the people. (less)

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Is this revisionist history? I'm considering reading this, but it seems like the kind of thing that would ignore the Souths history of racism and slavery, if not try to rewrite it.

Rebecca It's got a fairly dewy-eyed view of the South, I'd say. The author doesn't go in for the blatant "slavery taught the slaves lots of job-skills they co…moreIt's got a fairly dewy-eyed view of the South, I'd say. The author doesn't go in for the blatant "slavery taught the slaves lots of job-skills they could use later in life" racist bullshit, but pretty much ignores the whole subject, as if these servant-folk all over the place (with plantation-names given ahead of their forenames like that's normal) are just happy working people, devoted to the families they work for... There is one very ponderously overdone nod to something like "equality" in the choices the protagonist makes for his house servants when he marries: We endure a long treatise on how he bucks Savannah society by hiring/paying an Irish cook, a German nanny and a "free-colored" driver. His stance on this isn't exactly altruistic; he's stinking rich and able to indulge himself - and he's Yankee born & raised stinking rich. So actually paying household staff is how his daddy's family set things up...When he discusses slavery with his Southern family, the word "slave" is scrupulously avoided, and the system is faintly, faintly deprecated; one of the ladies as much as says, "Well, it's how we've always done things and they always seem so happy..."(less)

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