| A Short History of a Small Place | |
| Author: | T. R. Pearson |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Pub Date: | 1985 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages: | 381 pp |
| Isbn: | 0-671-54352-0 |
| Dewey: | 813/.54 19 |
| Congress: | PS3566.E235 S5 1985 |
| Oclc: | 11599872 |
| Followed By: | Off for the Sweet Hereafter |
A Short History of a Small Place is a 1985 novel by T. R. Pearson. Set in the fictional town of Neely, North Carolina – a thinly disguised Reidsville – it tells, in a rambling and digressive manner, about the life and eventual suicide of the town's only aristocratic woman, Miss Myra Angelique Pettigrew.