A Family of Women: The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War

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The steadily-stereotyped belles and matrons of the nineteenth-century South emerge as diverse personalities on this compelling account of 3 generations of girls from a South Carolina Circle of relatives whose fate rose and fell with the fortunes of the state. Through vivid, interwoven life stories, the book offers a unique point of view 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 Circle of relatives of Women specializes in the feminine 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 Circle of relatives ties. The usage of the letters, diaries, novels, and memoirs of the Petigru women and the fabric culture surrounding them, the authors weave a complex story of girls well worth knowing.

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