![](http://hermes.hrc.ntu.edu.tw/lctd/lctd_pix/Authors/120/image_1.jpg)
Lilly Martin Spencer. Dixie Land. 1862
Note the date of the painting, during the Civil War.
What images of the Ante-Bellum South are evoked by the painting?
Much of Grace King's Southern fiction embraces these same images and values. How does "The Little Convent Girl" contrast with these?
![](http://hermes.hrc.ntu.edu.tw/lctd/lctd_pix/Authors/120/image_2.jpg)
River Boat on the Mississippi River
¡@
![](http://hermes.hrc.ntu.edu.tw/lctd/lctd_pix/Authors/120/image_3.jpg)
Mississippi River steam boat docked in New Orleans
Refer to Grace King's "Little Convent Girl"
¡@ |