“More Poetical Than True”
“More Poetical Than True”
Florida, 1842–1850
This chapter details early childhood influences on Mary Edwards Bryan in Florida's Jefferson and Gadsden Counties. It examines the collapse of her family's plantation life, her schooling, her loneliness, and her childhood fantasies and relations. It casts a critical eye on her parents, noting her father's involvement in possible fraud and questionable political dealings and the possibility that her mother suffered from mental illness. It establishes her lifelong interest in reading, acting and the stage, trees, the Gulf of Mexico, the Ochlockonee River, ghosts and hauntings. It also examines the influence of slaves and slave culture on Bryan's life.
Keywords: fraud, mental illness, childhood fantasies, Jefferson County, Gadsden County, Ochlockonee river, slaves, slave culture
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