Women's Diaries & Letters of the Nineteenth-century South – serie
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Plantation Mistress on the Eve of the Civil War
The Diary of Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, 1860-61
Häftad, Engelska, 1996
249 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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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.
Northern Woman in the Plantation South
Letters of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, 1856-1876
Häftad, Engelska, 1997
220 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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Letters of Eliza Middleton Fisher and Her Mother, Mary Hering Middleton from Charleston, Philadelphia and Newport, 1839-1846
Inbunden, Engelska, 2001
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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: The Diary of Thomas C. Pope), a Middleton descendant, uncovered them; she now offers them as part of USC's invaluable Women's Diaries and Letters of the South series. The letters begin in 1839, just after Eliza Middleton Fisher's marriage. Eliza writes to her mother, "Tell me everything when you write," and mother obliges. We learn the vicissitudes of daily life, from the weather to the wardrobes. We read about young Eliza's travels to mountains and to Monticello, and we get a little celebrity gossip, as when Eliza visits dramatist and soon-to-be-abolitionist Fanny Kemble. The letters afford a fascinating glimpse of the cultural life of antebellum America, as we track what Eliza read (for example, the moral tract Woman's Mission) and the operas she attended. We also follow her foibles as she learns the arts of housekeeping. But the letters are not devoted solely to the frippery of society talk. The women also talk politics Eliza, for example, voices interest in "the Texas question" (the possible annexation of Texas, and the "disastrous" possibilities for the South). This volume is a major achievement, not least because Harrison makes public a trove of documents heretofore unseen by anyone but the Middletons.