A Family of Women
Subtitle: The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: September 22, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780807825051
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Family history; Women; Sociology; South Carolina - Local History; Women In The U.S.; Women and war; Social Science; History - General History; United States - State & Local - General; South Carolina; United States - 19th Century; Women's Studies - History; Social Science / Women's Studies; extended family; North Carolina; South Carolina; low country; generations; Southern ladies; antebellum; postwar plantation; Charleston; social life; Civil War; education; creativity; domesticity; marriages; women; History; Women's Studies - General; 19th century; Pettigrew family
First sentence: When Louise Petigru Porcher learned that Adele Petigru had become engaged to Robert Francis Withers Allston, she rushed to her sister's side.