ebooks Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison: (Volumes I II) by Belle Boyd in History

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The often-stereotyped belles and matrons of the nineteenth-century South emerge as diverse personalities in this compelling account of three generations of women from a South Carolina family whose fate rose and fell with the fortunes of the state. Through vivid; interwoven life stories; the book offers a unique perspective on how these women conducted their lives; shared personal triumphs and defeats; endured the deprivations and despair of civil war; and experienced a social revolution.A Family of Women focuses on the female descendants of Louise Gibert Pettigrew (later changed to Petigru); who rose from upcountry obscurity to privileged prominence in Charleston and on low country plantations; where they variously flourished as belles; managed large households; shocked society with their unconventionality; educated their children; endured troubled marriages; and maintained close family ties. Using the letters; diaries; novels; and memoirs of the Petigru women and the material culture surrounding them; the authors weave a complex story of women well worth knowing.