The Stonewall Ladies, each one of them, Miss Sue, Miss Betsy, Miss Molly and the rest, are the heritage of every one of us. We who have grown up in the South will share them with thre rest of the nation. Gentility and preoccupation with the past are their characteristics. One recognizes these ladies with delight. This book is a sympathetic, humorous chronicle of Southern life in a cheerful key. -- From jacket flap.