""A Daughter of the South and Shorter Stories"" is a collection of short stories written by Mrs. Burton Harrison and published in 1892. The title story follows the life of a young woman named Elsie, who grows up in the South during the Civil War and struggles to reconcile her loyalty to her family and heritage with her growing awareness of the injustices of slavery. The other stories in the collection deal with similar themes of love, loss, and the...