Think of Southern women during the American Civil War and Scarlett O'Hara immediately comes to mind.
Now novelist Paulette Jiles has put a very different kind of Southern woman at the centre of her new book.
Paulette Jiles joins Jenni to talk about her feisty heroine and our perceptions of 19th-century American women. Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles, published by Fourth Estate; ISBN: 0007146418