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Delta Wedding (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)

At a glance:

  • Author: Eudora Welty
  • First Published: 1946
  • Type of Work: Novel
  • Type of Plot: Regional
  • Time of Work: Early 1920’s
  • Genres: Long fiction
  • Subjects: Girls
  • Locales: South (U.S.)

Places Discussed

*Mississippi Delta. Broad alluvial plain bordering the Mississippi River, stretching on the Mississippi side from Memphis in the north nearly to Vicksburg in the south. A delta is any land built up from the mud and sand deposited by a river; however, in Delta Wedding the term defines a culture as well. Life in the Delta is different from life in Ellen Fairchild’s native Virginia, different from life in Troy Flavin’s Mississippi hill-country to the east, different from life in Laura’s nearby Jackson.

Shellmound. Name of both the cotton...

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