Author: Frank Lee BenedictPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
St. Simon's Niece. A novel
Author: Frank Lee BenedictPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385364671
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Mr. Vaughan's Heir
Author: Frank Lee BenedictAt Home on St. Simons
Author: Eugenia PricePublisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1684427444
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Here, for the first time outside the pages of a small Island newspaper called Georgia’s Coastal Illustrated, Eugenia shares with her worldwide reading public, some of what life was like during the first years in which she and her best friend and fellow writer, Joyce Blackburn, were becoming Islanders. “These short pieces,” Genie says, “include my observations day by day of what it was like, at last, to be at home on St. Simons. We were learning how to be neighbors, after so many years of complex life in the huge northern city of Chicago; learning how to care deeply for people with whom, at first glance, we had little in common. We were understanding what it really meant to have come home.” Eugenia Price, called by many St. Simons’ own “beloved invader,” tells you here about those early years as they were being lived. Her St. Simons Memoir, cherished by thousands, was written from memory and notes in old desk calendars, but At Home on St. Simons illuminates some of the experiences which most changed her—as they occurred. More than fourteen million people have read Eugenia Price’s books which have been translated into fifteen languages. Much of the magic these millions remember so vividly years after the reading, began in the simple, sad, joyous, and absorbing events related to this singular volume. Never before published is a brand new opening chapter, in which Ms. Price attempts to explain—almost as to herself—why, in the face of such drastic change on the once provincial little coastal island, she is still at home on St. Simons. Her readers do not have to see the Island firsthand, to recognize their own response to her sense of place.
Colonial Families of Philadelphia
Author: John Woolf JordanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
The Glory of Covington
Author: William Bailey WillifordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Newtonsboro was incorporated on 6 December 1822 as the town of Covington and was incorporated as a city in 1853.
Our Todays and Yesterdays
Author: Margaret Davis CatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brunswick (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Charleston and the Emergence of Middle-class Culture in the Revolutionary Era
Author: Jennifer L. GoloboyPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820349968
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
"Very humble servants": colonial merchants and the limits of middle-class power -- The revolution, John Wilkes, and middle-class mob rule -- City of knavery: trade before the War of 1812 -- Friendship and sympathy, family and stability -- The War of 1812 and commercial disaster -- Mercantile professionalism and Charleston as a cotton port
Belle Assemblée
Author: Allen's Indian mail and register of intelligence for British and foreign India
Author: Anna
Author: Anna Matilda KingPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820327174
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
As the wife of a frequently absent slaveholder and public figure, Anna Matilda Page King (1798-1859) was the de facto head of their Sea Island plantation. This volume collects more than 150 letters to her husband, children, parents, and others. Conveying the substance of everyday life as they chronicle King's ongoing struggles to put food on the table, nurse her "family black and white," and keep faith with a disappointing husband, the letters offer an absorbing firsthand account of antebellum coastal Georgia life. Anna Matilda Page was reared with the expectation that she would marry a planter, have children, and tend to her family's domestic affairs. Untypically, she was also schooled by her father in all aspects of plantation management, from seed cultivation to building construction. That grounding would serve her well. By 1842 her husband's properties were seized, owing to debts amassed from crop failures, economic downturns, and extensive investments in land, enslaved workers, and the development of the nearby port town of Brunswick. Anna and her family were sustained, however, by Retreat, the St. Simons Island property left to her in trust by her father. With the labor of fifty bondpeople and "their increase" she was to strive, with little aid from her husband, to keep the plantation solvent. A valuable record of King's many roles, from accountant to mother, from doctor to horticulturist, the letters also reveal much about her relationship with, and attitudes toward, her enslaved workers. Historians have yet to fully understand the lives of plantation mistresses left on their own by husbands pursuing political and other professional careers. Anna Matilda Page King's letters give us insight into one such woman who reluctantly entered, but nonetheless excelled in, the male domains of business and agriculture.