Between North and South
Subtitle: the letters of Emily Wharton Sinkler, 1842-1865
By: edited by Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq.
Contributors: LeClercq, Anne Sinkler Whaley, 1942-
Series: Women's diaries and letters of the South
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Sinkler, Emily Wharton, 1823-1875 -- Correspondence; Plantation life -- South Carolina -- Santee River Region -- History -- 19th century; Plantation owners' spouses -- South Carolina -- Santee River Region -- Correspondence; Women -- South Carolina -- Santee River Region -- Correspondence; Women -- South Carolina -- Santee River Region -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Santee River Region (S.C.) -- Biography; Charleston Region (S.C.) -- Biography; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Biography
Genres: Correspondence.; Biography.
Description: "Emily Wharton Sinkler was only eighteen years old when she began to write to distant relatives, chronicling her experiences on an antebellum cotton plantation. The daughter of prominent Philadelphia lawyer Thomas Wharton, Emily had married Charles Sinkler of St. Johns Berkeley Parish and Charleston, South Carolina, and moved south to begin a new life.

Collected by her great-great-granddaughter Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq, Emily's letters ring with keen insights into Southern society and offer a definitive account of a young woman transplanted to the South in 1842 through the Civil War. This frequent and thorough correspondence conveys the rich and varied details of a time divided between North and South."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-229) and index.