Sarah Bradford

Author's NoteMoney ValuesEconomic historians now regard equating the value of fifteenth-and sixteenth-century coinage with today's money as unrealistic owing to the number of factors involved in the calculation. However, a rough rule of thumb would be to multiply each currency (gold coins such as...

PREFACE The "Southernness" in Southern literature might be said to be like the "sex" in sex appeal—we know it's there, and we know how to respond to it, but frequendy there is no explaining why it works the way it does or precisely how it achieves its effect. —LOUIS D. RUBIN, JR., "From...