Boardinghouse Women
How Southern Keepers, Cooks, Nurses, Widows, and Runaways Shaped Modern America
By Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt

Approx. 288 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-7640-1
Published: November 2023 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-7639-5
Published: November 2023
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Engelhardt draws on a vast archive to recover boardinghouse women's stories, revealing what happened in the kitchens, bedrooms, hallways, back stairs, and front porches as well as behind closed doors—legacies still with us today.
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Elizabeth Engelhardt is Kenan Eminent Professor of Southern Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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"Black, white, comfortable, poor, straight, gay, male, female—southern boardinghouses had a place for everyone. Elizabeth Engelhardt beautifully illuminates life in these once-ubiquitous houses, which may have blended into the historical background but powerfully shaped the region and nation."—Rebecca Sharpless, author of Grain and Fire: A History of Baking in the American South