The life and times of Martha Laurens Ramsay, 1759-1811
By: Joanna Bowen Gillespie.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Ramsay, Martha Laurens, 1759-1811; Women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Biography; Upper class women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Biography; Christian women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Biography; Women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Religious life; Christian biography -- South Carolina -- Charleston; Charleston (S.C.) -- Biography; Charleston (S.C.) -- Social life and customs; Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- 1775-1865
Genres: Biography.
Description: "A member of a distinguished South Carolina family, Martha Laurens Ramsay was one of few eighteenth-century Southern women whose written records provide a window into her life - her experiences, convictions, and ambivalences during the crucial epoch of the nation's founding decades.

Using Martha Laurens Ramsay's spiritual diary and correspondence and investigating contemporary magazines, novels, newspapers, sermons, and memoirs, Joanna Bowen Gillespie has crafted a contextual biography that reconstructs with compelling insights Ramsay's views on patriotism, daughterly duty, household management, wifely affection, motherly aspiration and personal autonomy."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-305) and index.