A Woman Rice Planter

A Woman Rice Planter
Author :
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages : 510
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781643362809
ISBN-13 : 1643362801
Rating : 4/5 (801 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Woman Rice Planter by : Elizabeth Allston Pringle

Download or read book A Woman Rice Planter written by Elizabeth Allston Pringle and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Woman Rice Planter offers insights into a broad spectrum of Southern life after the Civil War. As an account of a woman's struggle for survival and dignity in a distinctly male-dominated society, it contributes significantly to women's history. It presents a rich portrait of a distinctive place—the South Carolina Low Country—in a troubled and generally undocumented time, a portrait made all the more vivid by the fine pen-and-ink sketches of Charleston artist Alice R. Huger Smith. Elizabeth Alston Pringle was the daughter of Robert Francis Withers Allston, a state legislator and governor, who was at one time owner of seven plantations but bankrupt at the time of his death. Left to struggle for income to regain the property and position the family held prior to the war, Pringle turned to writing and eventually published a column on Southern culture in the New York Sun under the pseudeonym Patience Pennington. In 1913 she collected and reshaped these newspaper columns and compiled them into one volume, A Woman Rice Planter, a best-selling book that reduced her financial worries. Her descriptions of the vagaries of rice planting, of her relationships with former slaves and the first generation of free-born African Americans, and of her life in the early Reconstruciton period are important to our understanding of the prevailing attitudes and persistence of the Old South in the New. The volume was illustrated by Alice R. Huger Smith (1876–1958), an American painter and printmaker. This edition features an introduction by Charles Joyner (1935–2016), distinguished professor emeritus of southern history and culture at Coastal Carolina University and author of several books, including Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community.


A Woman Rice Planter Related Books

A Woman Rice Planter
Language: en
Pages: 510
Authors: Elizabeth Allston Pringle
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-24 - Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

GET EBOOK

A Woman Rice Planter offers insights into a broad spectrum of Southern life after the Civil War. As an account of a woman's struggle for survival and dignity in
A Woman Rice Planter
Language: en
Pages: 482
Authors: Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle
Categories: Georgetown County (S.C.)
Type: BOOK - Published: 1913 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

A Woman Rice Planter
Language: en
Pages: 486
Authors: Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle
Categories: Georgetown County (S.C.)
Type: BOOK - Published: 1913 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Carolina Gold
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Dorothy Love
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-17 - Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM

GET EBOOK

The war is over, but at Fairhaven Plantation, Charlotte's struggle has just begun. Following her father’s death, Charlotte Fraser returns to Fairhaven, her fa
Chronicles of Chicora Wood
Language: en
Pages: 402
Authors: Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle
Categories: South Carolina
Type: BOOK - Published: 1922 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK