Sojourns in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865-1947 : from the ruins of war to the rise of tourism / edited by Jennie Holton Fant.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fant, Jennie Holton, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Charleston (S.C.)--History--19th century.

Charleston (S.C.).

Charleston (S.C.)--History--20th century.

South Carolina--Charleston.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2019]

Contents:

Four years under fire / W.F.G. Peck

City of desolation / Whitelaw Reid

The dead body of Charleston / Sidney Andrews

Charleston and its suburbs / Oliver Bell Bunce

Charleston, South Carolina: the Venice of America / Edward King

The petrel state / Sir George Campbell, M.P.

Inside southern cabins / "B." (Eliza Houston Barr)

A ghost of dead days / Lady Duffus Hardy

Enchanted / Owen Wister

Charleston / Charles Henry White

Where romance and courtesy do not forget / Edward Hungerford

Hospitable Charleston / Mrs. T.P. O'Connor (Betty Paschal O'Connor)

In Charleston, a travel sketch / William Dean Howells

The battle of Charleston 1918 / Norman Rockwell

And the garden was a fire of magenta / Amy Lowell

A lingering fragrance / Ludwig Lewisohn

Mr. Parsons' mansion / Schuyler Livingston Parsons

The song of Charleston / M.A. De Wolfe Howe

Supper at the Goose Creek Club / Emily Clark

Scouting for folk art / Holger Cahill

Charleston: the great myth / Edward Twig

Charleston plantations / May Sarton

With Maugham at Yemassee / Glenway Wescott

Charleston / Vashti Maxwell Grayson

These aristocratic paradises / Simone de Beauvoir.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Sojourns in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865-1947.

ISBN:

9781611179392

1611179394

OCLC:

1031423022