Has anyone heard of this lady or her book? **** As a person associated with a library and a Mississippian, I want to call you attention to a newly published volume, *The Diary of a Southern Lady.* This diary was kept from 1852 to 1912, a span of sixty years, by Georgina Francis Barrett Devlin, who immigrated to Mississippi from England in 1836 as an eleven year old. Most of her life was spent in **Yazoo City**, **Mississippi** and in **** Winona**, **Mississippi****. During that time, she recorded the events of her life and world, including visits to her brothers in ****Toronto**, ** Canada****; the education of her children at home, in small local schools before the advent of public education and eventually in various colleges; traveling on steamboats, by stage, by train, and eventually by automobile. She spoke of the Civil War, with Yankee soldiers frightening her enough to spend a night hiding with her children in the woods - which she vowed never to do again. In later years, she spoke considerably about her grandchildren and about her aches and pains and her remedies for them. She even spoke of paying her "dues" to the Ricks Memorial Library in ****Yazoo** **City****, which was founded in 1901. The published volume has been well footnoted and has introductory material concerning the times in which the diary was written. This book would be a valuable resource for historians, genealogists, and anyone interested in life in small-town Mississippi before, during, and after, the Civil War and on into the early 20th century. The book can be purchased online directly at the website, https://www.createspace.com/3546438, through Amazon.com, or by contacting the author directly by email to [email protected] or by telephone to 1-540-686-7285. **** ** ** -- Donna Kay Cross Griffin