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Delta Wedding (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)

At a glance:

  • Author: Eudora Welty
  • First Published: 1946
  • Type of Work: Novel
  • Type of Plot: Regional
  • Time of Work: Early 1920’s
  • Setting: Mississippi
  • Principal Characters: Laura McRaven, Dabney Fairchild, Ellen, Battle, Shelley, George Fairchild, Robbie, Troy Flavin
  • Genres: Long fiction
  • Subjects: Girls
  • Locales: South (U.S.)

The Story:

Nine-year-old Laura McRaven made her first journey alone from Jackson to the Delta to visit her dead mother’s people, the Fairchilds. One of her cousins, Dabney Fairchild, was to be married, and Laura’s chief regret was that she could not be in the wedding party because of her mother’s recent death. She remembered Shellmound, the Fairchild plantation, and knew that she would have a wonderful time with her exciting cousins and aunts. The Fairchilds were people to whom things happened, exciting, unforgettable things.

At Shellmound, Laura found most of the...

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