Jane H Pease: 2 books
Ladies, Women, and Wenches
Choice and Constraint in Antebellum Charleston and Boston
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Pursuing the meaning of gender in nineteenth-century urban American society, Ladies, Women, and Wenches compares the lives of women living in two distinctive antebellum cultures, Charleston and Boston, between 1820 and 1850. In contrast to most contemporary histories of women, this study examines...
A Family of Women
The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
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...