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• catalog abstract ""Elijah Millington Walker began to keep a diary midway through his medical apprenticeship in Oxford, Mississippi. He composed a lengthy preface to the diary, in which he remembered his life from the time of his family's arrival in north Mississippi in 1834, when he was ten years old, until late 1848, when the University of Mississippi opened and Walker's diary begins." "On one level, the diary records the life of a bachelor, chronicling the difficulties of an ambitious young physician who would like to marry but is hampered by poverty and his professional aspirations. Walker details the qualities he desires in a wife and criticizes women who do not measure up; a loyal wife, in Walker's highly romanticized image, remains a true helpmeet even to the most debased drunkard. On another level, Walker describes various medical cases, giving readers an idea of the kinds of diseases prevalent in the lower South at mid-century, as well as their treatment by orthodox physicians. In this vivid chronicle of everyday life in antebellum Mississippi, Walker also finds space to comment on a wide range of topics that affected the state and the region, including pioneer life in north Mississippi, evangelical Protestantism, the new state university at Oxford, the threat of secession to 1849-50, Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850, foreign affairs, and local railroad development. A strong defender of the Union at mid-century, Walker nonetheless defended slavery and distinctively Southern institutions." "A Bachelor's Life in Antebellum Mississippi brings to the public one of the few diaries of a very intelligent yet "ordinary" man, a non-elite member of a society dominated by a planter aristocracy. The author's frankness and flair for writing reflect a way of life not often seen; this volume will thus prove a valuable addition to the body of primary documents from the early republic."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b13260186.
• catalog contributor b13260187.
• catalog coverage "Mississippi Social life and customs 19th century.".
• catalog created "c2004.".
• catalog date "2004".
• catalog date "c2004.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
• catalog description ""A Bachelor's Life in Antebellum Mississippi brings to the public one of the few diaries of a very intelligent yet "ordinary" man, a non-elite member of a society dominated by a planter aristocracy. The author's frankness and flair for writing reflect a way of life not often seen; this volume will thus prove a valuable addition to the body of primary documents from the early republic."--Jacket.".
• catalog description ""Elijah Millington Walker began to keep a diary midway through his medical apprenticeship in Oxford, Mississippi. He composed a lengthy preface to the diary, in which he remembered his life from the time of his family's arrival in north Mississippi in 1834, when he was ten years old, until late 1848, when the University of Mississippi opened and Walker's diary begins."".
• catalog description ""On one level, the diary records the life of a bachelor, chronicling the difficulties of an ambitious young physician who would like to marry but is hampered by poverty and his professional aspirations. Walker details the qualities he desires in a wife and criticizes women who do not measure up; a loyal wife, in Walker's highly romanticized image, remains a true helpmeet even to the most debased drunkard. On another level, Walker describes various medical cases, giving readers an idea of the kinds of diseases prevalent in the lower South at mid-century, as well as their treatment by orthodox physicians.".
• catalog description "In this vivid chronicle of everyday life in antebellum Mississippi, Walker also finds space to comment on a wide range of topics that affected the state and the region, including pioneer life in north Mississippi, evangelical Protestantism, the new state university at Oxford, the threat of secession to 1849-50, Henry Clay's Compromise of 1850, foreign affairs, and local railroad development. A strong defender of the Union at mid-century, Walker nonetheless defended slavery and distinctively Southern institutions."".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-325) and index.".
• catalog description "The diary of Dr. Elijah Millington Walker -- First notebook -- Second notebook -- Third notebook -- Fourth notebook -- Fifth notebook -- Glossary of medical terms.".
• catalog extent "xxxiii, 343 p. :".
• catalog identifier "1572332832 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "2004".
• catalog issued "c2004.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press,".
• catalog spatial "Mississippi Social life and customs 19th century.".
• catalog spatial "Mississippi".
• catalog subject "2004 H-435".
• catalog subject "976.2/05 22".
• catalog subject "F341 .W17 2004".
• catalog subject "History of Medicine Mississippi Diaries.".
• catalog subject "History, 19th Century Mississippi Diaries.".
• catalog subject "Medicine Mississippi History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Physicians Mississippi Diaries.".
• catalog subject "WZ 70 AM7 W178b 2004".
• catalog subject "Walker, Elijah Millington, 1824-1868 Diaries.".
• catalog subject "Walker, Elijah Millington, 1824-1868.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The diary of Dr. Elijah Millington Walker -- First notebook -- Second notebook -- Third notebook -- Fourth notebook -- Fifth notebook -- Glossary of medical terms.".
• catalog title "A bachelor's life in antebellum Mississippi : the diary of Dr. Elijah Millington Walker, 1849-1852 / edited by Lynette Boney Wrenn.".
• catalog type "Diaries. fast".
• catalog type "Diaries.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".