Women's Diaries & Letters of the Nineteenth-century South – serie

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5 produkter

1. 

   Lucy Breckinridge of Grove Hill

   The Journal of a Virginia Girl, 1862-1864

   Av Lucy Gilmer Breckinridge, Mary D. Robertson m. fl.

   Häftad, 1994

   225 kr

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   Plantation Mistress on the Eve of the Civil War

   The Diary of Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, 1860-61

   Av Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, John H Moore

   Häftad, 1996

   261 kr

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   The diary of Keziah Brevard evokes the mundane concerns of the plantation period. It also documents her reflections on the events leading up to the American Civil War: the election of Abraham Lincoln, South Carolina's secession convention and the attack on Fort Sumter.

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   Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1739-1762

   Av Eliza Lucas Pinckney, Marvin R. Zahniser m. fl.

   Häftad, 1997

   261 kr

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   Eliza Lucas Pinckney was one of the most distinguished women of colonial America, pioneering the large-scale cultivation of indigo in South Carolina. Her letters reveal an eventful life with myriad interests, changing politics, innovative ideas about slavery, and an unusually happy marriage.

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   Northern Woman in the Plantation South

   Letters of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, 1856-1876

   Av Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, Wilma King-Hunter

   Häftad, 1997

   232 kr

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   The wife of a physician, mother of ten children, and mistress of five slaves, Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, fought the isolation of her adopted home by maintaining a lively correspondence with family and friends in Massachusetts. This work provides a candid look at middle-class southern life.

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   Best Companions

   Letters of Eliza Middleton Fisher and Her Mother, Mary Hering Middleton from Charleston, Philadelphia and Newport, 1839-1846

   Av Eliza Middleton Fisher, Mary Hering Middleton m. fl.

   Inbunden, 2001

   481 kr

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   Almost 400 letters between mother and daughter draw the reader into the antebellum Southern aristocracy. The Middleton family lived on one of the largest, most opulent plantations in South Carolina. These papers moldered in a family member's file cabinet until Harrison (ed.. Philadelphia Merchant: …