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Between North and South : the letters of Emily Wharton Sinkler, 1842-1865 / edited by Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq.

Van Pelt Library F277.S28 S57 2001
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Sinkler, Emily Wharton, 1823-1875.
Contributor:
LeClercq, Anne Sinkler Whaley, 1942-
Series:
Women's diaries and letters of the South
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sinkler, Emily Wharton, 1823-1875--Correspondence.
Sinkler, Emily Wharton.
Sinkler, Emily Wharton, 1823-1875.
Plantation life--South Carolina--Santee River Region--History--19th century.
Plantation life.
Plantation owners' spouses--South Carolina--Santee River Region--Correspondence.
Plantation owners' spouses.
Women--South Carolina--Santee River Region--Correspondence.
Women.
Women--South Carolina--Santee River Region--Social life and customs--19th century.
Manners and customs.
History.
Santee River Region (S.C.)--Biography.
Santee River Region (S.C.).
Charleston Region (S.C.)--Biography.
Charleston Region (S.C.).
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Biography.
Philadelphia (Pa.).
South Carolina--Santee River Region.
Genre:
Correspondence.
Autobiographies.
Personal correspondence.
Physical Description:
xvii, 237 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [2001]
Contents:
I From Whence She Came
Family and Philadelphia, 1823-1842 1
II New Family, New Places
Charleston and Eutaw Plantation, 1842 9
III Dealing with Pneumonia and Whooping Cough, Winter 1843 25
IV Questions of Slavery and the Temperance Movement, Winter 1843 30
V Summer Retreats
Virginia and Flat Rock, 1844 35
VI Back to Eutaw Plantation, Fall 1844 and Spring 1845 43
VII Eutaw Plantation, Fall 1845 47
VIII The Mexican-American War, 1846 54
IX The Death of Seaman; the Birth of Arabella, 1847 62
X Moving to Belvidere, 1848, 1849 81
XI Life at Woodford in the High Hills of Santee, 1850 106
XII From the Music of Jenny Lind to the Pageantry of Chivalry, Spring 1851 138
XIII A Splendid Christmas, Winter 1851, and Spring 1852 157
XIV The Charleston Races, Spring 1853 178
XV Life on Sullivan's Island, Spring 1854 182
XVI Winter 1855 188
XVII The Coming of War, and the Civil War, 1855-1865 193.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-229) and index.
ISBN:
1570034125
OCLC:
47831408

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