Emily Todd Helm and Phoebe Pember

[Susan Higginbotham]

Thank you Susan. I enjoyed the letter enough to consider reading "A Southern Woman’s Story: Life in Confederate Richmond." Would you recommend it?

Yes, I would! There are a number of editions, but the one I mentioned in my post contains some Pember's wartime letters in addition to her memoir. Here is an edition of the memoir itself:

https://archive.org/details/asouthernwomans01pembgoog


A number of her letters have been digitized as well:

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/02232/