Jane H. Pease, William H. Pease

A Family of Women (eBook, ePUB)

The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The often-stereotyped belles and matrons of the nineteenth-century South emerge as diverse personalities in this compelling account of three generations of women from a South Carolina family whose fate rose and fell with the fortunes of the state. Through vivid, interwoven life stories, the book offers a unique perspective on how these women conducted their lives, shared personal triumphs and defeats, endured the deprivations and despair of civil war, and experienced a social revolution.

A Family of Women focuses on the female descendants of Louise Gibert Pettigrew (later changed to Petigru), who rose from upcountry obscurity to privileged prominence in Charleston and on low country plantations, where they variously flourished as belles, managed large households, shocked society with their unconventionality, educated their children, endured troubled marriages, and maintained close family ties. Using the letters, diaries, novels, and memoirs of the Petigru women and the material culture surrounding them, the authors weave a complex story of women well worth knowing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781469620190
• Artikelnr.: 50079505

Autorenporträt

Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease are both professors emeriti of history at the University of Maine and associates in history at the College of Charleston. Their three most recent books explore various aspects of Southern history.