9781570033759 - best companions: letters of eliza middleton fisher & her mother, mary hering middleton, fromcharleston, philadelphia, & newport, 1839-1846: letters of ... (women's diaries and letters of the south) von fisher, eliza middleton; middleton, mary hering; harrison, eliza cope (2 Ergebnisse)
Best Companions : Letters of Eliza Middleton Fisher and Her Mother, Mary Hering Middleton from Charleston, Philadelphia and Newport, 1839-1846
Harrison, Eliza Cope, Fisher, Eliza Middleton, Middleton, Mary Hering
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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Ex library but with very few markings and pages look unused. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> In the spring of 1839, Eliza Middleton, the youngest daughter of a wealthy South Carolina rice planter and diplo…mat, married Philadelphian Joshua Francis Fisher at Middleton Place, one of the most celebrated plantations in the South. Soon after the wedding Eliza began a new life in Philadelphia, leaving her family and familiar sur-roundings behind. In her first letter home, she begged her mother. "Tell me everything when you write." Thus began a seven-year conversation-on paper-between Eliza and her British-born mother, Mary Hering Middleton, that would encompass some 375 letters. Gathered in this vol-ume with more than fifty illustrations and an introduction by Eliza Cope Harrison, the corre spondence offers a sweeping yet intimate view of antebellum Charleston, Philadelphia, and the fashionable resort of Newport, Rhode Island. The letters delineate a cultural and social life that bound together North and South at a time when sectional interests worked to sunder the nation. These let.
