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Cornelia Phillips Spence

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Wilson, Louis Round · 1953 · University of NC Press

Louis Round Wilson's selection from the papers of Cornelia Phillips Spencer, the Chapel Hill writer whose life ran from 1825 to 1908, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1953. Topics include American women authors in North Carolina and the social life and customs of Chapel Hill.

Included because: Catalog heading in the NC Cardinal record: Spence, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908.

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