Timeline
Lifetime:
1880 -
1961
Passed: ≈
63 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Julia Peterkin
Books by Julia Peterkin
Scarlet Sister Mary
Fiction
Drama
Family
Tradition
Plantation
Identity
Rural Life
Coming-of-age
African American
Social issues
Scarlet Sister Mary is a novel by Julia Peterkin that explores the complexities of race, gender, and class in the rural South. The novel centers on the story of Mary, a young African American woman who lives on a plantation in South Carolina. Mary is...