Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800-1865

by Christine Jacobson Carter

Book Overview

In this engaging study, Christine Jacobson Carter uncovers the fruitful and interesting lives of single women--and the attitudes toward them--in the bustling urban centers of nineteenth-century Savannah and Charleston.

Carter's focus is on educated, financially secure white women who joined in the culture's celebration of domesticity even though they had not married. Making effective use of contemporary fiction, advice literature, diaries,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252076311
• ISBN13: 9780252076312
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.6"