King, Florence (Personal Name)

Her Southern ladies and gentlemen, 1975.

Washington post WWW site, viewed Jan. 8, 2016 (Florence King, whose essays and books ripped apart pious myths about Southern women, feminism and the false-front friendliness of modern life, died Jan. 6 [2016] in Fredericksburg, Va, one day after her 80th birthday; death reported by Jack Fowler, publisher of National Review, the conservative magazine that was her journalistic base for 25 years; she once wrote pornographic novels for fast money; Florence Virginia King was born Jan. 5, 1936, in Washington; moved to Seattle in 1972 and, three years later, published her first book under her own name, "Southern Ladies and Gentlemen," a comic guide to life in the South; lived in Fredericksburg for more than 30 years)