Earline's Pink Party : The Social Rituals and Domestic Relics of a Southern Woman / Elizabeth Findley Shores.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shores, Elizabeth Findley, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Findley, Annie Earline Moore, 1896-1953.

Findley, Annie Earline Moore.

Women, White--Alabama--Tuscaloosa--Social life and customs--20th century.

Women, White.

Women, White--Alabama--Tuscaloosa--Biography.

Tuscaloosa (Ala.)--Race relations--History--20th century.

Tuscaloosa (Ala.).

Tuscaloosa (Ala.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, [Alabama] : The University of Alabama Press, 2017.

Summary:

In Earline's Pink Party Elizabeth Findley Shores sifts through her family's scattered artifacts to understand her grandmother's life in relation to the troubled racial history of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Earline Moore Findley's Family Tree

Herbert Lyman Findley Sr.'s Family Tree

Earline's World, Tuscaloosa, circa 1953

Introduction: The Female Elemental

One. Unpainted Houses

Two. Marriage

Three. Legends

Four. The Bungalow

Five. Distant Bells

Six. The Judge's Wife

Seven. Tableaux Vivants

Eight. The Pink Party

Nine. Haven

Ten. Shrine

Conclusion: Self-Portrait

Appendix 1. Postmaster Appointments in the Extended Christopher Family, 1841-1915

Appendix 2. Enslaved Members of Christopher Chapel Methodist Church (Held by the Extended Christopher Family)

Appendix 3. Books in the Findley Home Library, with Inscriptions

Appendix 4. Enslaved Workers Rented by Robert Jemison Jr. to Murchison Findley, October 7, 1858-January 21, 1859

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8173-9068-5

OCLC:

978898724