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[Identification of item], in the Lucy Hull Baldwin Papers, #849, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Atlanta (Ga.)--Social life and customs.
• Autobiographies--United States.
• Autobiography--Women authors.
• Baldwin, Lucy Hull, d. 1923.
• Children--Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
• New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Plantation life--Georgia.
• Savannah (Ga.)--Social life and customs.
• Women--United States--Social life and customs.

• See also George Johnson Baldwin Papers (#850), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Lucy Harvie Hull Baldwin (died 1923) was the daughter of George Gilmer Hull of Athens, Ga. She spent her childhood in Atlanta during the Civil War, and lived in New York City and Savannah. In 1882 she married George Johnson Baldwin. The Baldwins had two children, George Hull Baldwin and Dorothea Clifford Baldwin Irwin.

The collection contains the autobiography of Lucy Hull Baldwin, wife of George Baldwin, describing her childhood in Atlanta during the Civil War, plantation life, living in New York City and Savannah; poems and short stories by her; and dramatizations of works by Charles Dickens.