How Long to Read Old Times in Dixie Land

How Long Does it Take to Read Old Times in Dixie Land?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 46 minutes to read Old Times in Dixie Land by Caroline Merrick

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"Describes rural Southern life before the war, experience during the war, whose hardship she shared." - Book News, 1902 "Abounds in anecdotes of an interesting personal character." -Bookbuyer, 1902 Caroline Elizabeth Merrick (1825 - 1908), author of the 1901 book of reminiscences "Old Times in Dixie Land" was daughter of Captain David Thomas, of the parish of East Feliciana in the State of Louisiana, and wife of Judge Merrick of Clinton in the same State. A slaveholder by practice and belief, married at fifteen, the mother of three children at the age of twenty, Mrs. Merrick was a typical product of her environment. Affectionate, thrifty, passionately prejudiced, utterly unconscious of any world beyond her own narrow boundary, she naturally developed during the Civil War into one of the bitterest of partisans. "I even gave him my hand," she writes of a Union doctor who had taken a weary and dangerous journey to save the life of one of her negroes, "though always before I had refused to shake hands with one of them." After the war was over (and in part forgotten), Mrs. Merrick learned liberality. She made frequent visits to the North, fraternized with Miss Willard and Mr. Horn and went enthusiastically into the work of the W. C. T. U. She begins her narrative of events with her birth in 1825, on her father's plantation in Louisiana, and continues it down to the present day in a series of chapters containing much of interest and much that properly belongs in a journal or in a book of memoirs privately printed for one's family.

How long is Old Times in Dixie Land?

Old Times in Dixie Land by Caroline Merrick is 164 pages long, and a total of 41,656 words.

This makes it 55% the length of the average book. It also has 51% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Old Times in Dixie Land Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 47 minutes to read Old Times in Dixie Land aloud.

What Reading Level is Old Times in Dixie Land?

Old Times in Dixie Land is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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