Southern single blessedness
Subtitle: unmarried women in the urban South, 1800-1865
By: Christine Jacobson Carter.
Series: Women in American history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780252030116
Subjects: Women -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Single women -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Single women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century; Single women -- Georgia -- Savannah -- History -- 19th century
Description: In this study, Christine Jacobson Carter uncovers interesting lives of single women in the bustling urban centres of 19th-century Savannah and Charleston. Carter's focus is on educated, financially secure white women who joined in the culture's celebration of domesticity even though they had not married.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "More purity and active goodness"; title: "Upon those shady banks; title: to stand and view the busy world" : unmarried women's antebellum Savannah and Charleston; title: "A glory such as marriage never gave" : the literature and ideology of urban southern single blessedness; title: "At home where I am a very important personage" : dutiful daughters, single sisters, and maiden aunts; title: "To know that you still love me" : female friends and female friendships; title: "Seeking an extensive sphere of usefulness" : women's benevolence in antebellum Savannah and Charleston"; title: "Such a strong personal love of the old place" : enclaves undone in Civil War Charleston and Savannah.