Mistress of Riversdale
Subtitle: The Plantation Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert, 1795-1821 (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: February 1, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780801843990
Subjects: Biography: general; Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; United States - Antebellum Era; History - U.S.; Women plantation owners; Correspondence; Plantation owners; History: American; USA; Letters; United States - State & Local - General; History / United States / General; Mid-Atlantic States; d. 1821; Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.); Calvert, Rosalie Stier,; Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and; History; Plantation life
First sentence: THE STIER FAMILY FLED BELGIUM in the summer of 1794 as the army of Revolutionary France advanced on their native Antwerp.