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Author: John S. Hughes
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780872498402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAndrew Sheffield's letters help us better understand the full range of behavior among women in the Victorian South & the limits of Southern womanhood near the end of the nineteenth century.
Author: Gregg Andrews
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780826212405
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In 1903, Atlas built a plant on the border of the small community of Ilasco, located just outside Hannibal - home of the infamous cave popularized in Mark Twain's most acclaimed novels. The rich and powerful Atlas quickly appointed itself as caretaker of Twain's heritage and sought to take control of Ilasco. However, its authority was challenged in 1910 when Heinbach inherited her husband's tract of land that formed much of the unincorporated town site. On grounds that Heinbach's husband had been in the advanced stages of alcoholism when she married him the year before, some of Ilasco's political leaders and others who had ties to Atlas challenged the will, charging Heinbach with undue influence."--Jacket.
Author: Augusta Jane Evans
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781570034404
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilson 1835-1909) is little known now, but was one of the most popular authors of the 19th century, with most of her nine novels becoming best sellers. Sexton (writing, Morehead State U.) selects and annotates letters to her friends, among them well known literary and political figures, that illuminate her life and times. With this volume, the series expands from the 19th to encompass the 20th as well. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2012-11-26
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1611172101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe international adventures of a southern widow turned patron of historical discovery Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910 is a travelogue of captivating episodes in exotic lands as experienced by an intrepid American aristocrat and her son at the dawn of the twentieth century. A member of the prominent Sinkler family of Charleston and Philadelphia, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Sinkler married into Philadelphia's wealthy Coxe family in 1870. Widowed just three years later, she dedicated herself to a lifelong pursuit of philanthropy, intellectual endeavor, and extensive travel. Heeding the call of their dauntless adventuresome spirits, Lizzie and her son, Eckley, set sail in 1890 on a series of odysseys that took them from the United States to Cairo, Luxor, Khartoum, Algiers, Istanbul, Naples, Vichy, and Athens. The Coxes not only visited the sites and monuments of ancient civilizations but also participated in digs, funded entire expeditions, and ultimately subsidized the creation of the Coxe Wing of Ancient History at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. A prolific correspondent, Lizzie conscientiously recorded her adventures abroad in lively prose that captures the surreal exhilarations and harsh realities of traversing the known and barely known worlds of Africa and the Middle East. She journeyed through foreign lands with various nieces in tow to expose them to the educational and social benefits of the Grand Tour. Her letters and recollections are complemented by numerous photographs and several original watercolor paintings.
Author: Emilie Riley McKinley
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781570033568
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn eyewitness account to a turning point in the Civil War, From the Pen of a She-Rebel chronicles not only a community's near destruction but also its endurance in the face of war."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Emily Wharton Sinkler
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9781570034121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmily Wharton, a Philadelphian, in 1842 married Charles Sinkler, a midshipman in the US Navy. Sinkler took his 19-year-old wife to live among his family, wealthy cotton planters outside Charleston, SC. For much of her married life Emily traveled between the two places; her letters, edited by her great-great-granddaughter (a librarian at the U. of Tennessee), were retrieved from the attics of relatives Northern and Southern. LeClercq sees her forebear as a pioneer of sorts, adapting well to the rural, antebellum South--a paternalistic society where opportunities for women were circumscribed--while also thriving in cosmopolitan Philadelphia and endearing herself to the people whose lives she touched in both worlds. c. Book News Inc.
Author: Gabrielle McColl
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781570037146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA glimpse into what romance and marriage meant for a southern couple at the dawn of our modern age
Author: Geoffrey Reaume
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2000-12-15
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1442659165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Remembrance of Patients Past, historian Geoffrey Reaume remembers previously forgotten psychiatric patients by examining in rich detail their daily life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane (now called the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health – CAMH) from 1870-1940. Psychiatric patients endured abuse and could lead monotonous lives inside the asylum's walls, yet these same women and men worked hard at unpaid institutional jobs for years and decades on end, created their own entertainment, even in some cases made their own clothes, while forming meaningful relationships with other patients and some staff. Using first person accounts by and about patients – including letters written by inmates which were confiscated by hospital staff – Reaume weaves together a tapestry of stories about the daily lives of people confined behind brick walls that patients themselves built.
Author: Eliza Middleton Fisher
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 614
ISBN-13: 9781570033759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text is a collection of letters that were sent over a period of seven years, between a mother and daughter who lived in South Carolina and Philadelphia respectively. The correspondence offers a sweeping view of antebellum Charleston, Philadelphia and Newport, Rhode Island.
Author: Caroline Carson
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781570035005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn both locales she created for herself the life of an artist and southern expatriate." "From Italy, Carson wrote hundreds of discursive letters to her younger son in America. Gathered in this collection, these narratives offer intimate insights into the emotional life of a mature woman, the accomplishments of an artist determined both to perfect her craft and sell her work, and the intellectual and social pursuits of a well-educated, vivacious American living abroad."
