Best Companions: Letters of Eliza Middleton Fisher and Her Mother, Mary Hering Middleton, from Charleston, Philadelphia, and Newport, 1

Bys: Eliza Middleton Fisher and Mary Hering Middleton

Book Overview

A look at nineteenth-century life through the eyes of a prominent mother and daughter

In the spring of 1839, Eliza Middleton (1815-1890), the youngest daughter of a wealthy South Carolina rice planter and diplomat, 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. In her first letter home, she begged her...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570033757
• ISBN13: 9781570033759
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 606 Pages
• Weight: 2.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

The cultural and social life of the North and the South

Best Companions is a 532 page compendium of letters between Eliza Middleton Fisher and her mother, Mary Hering Middleton. The letters bridge Charleston, Philadelphia to Newport, through the years 1839-1846. This seven-year conversation, encompassed in some 375 letters, connect the cultural and social life of the North and the South even as other forces conspired to tear America part from within. Enhanced with an Epilogue, extentensive bibliography, and comprehensive index, Best Companions is intimately showcases the joys, sorrows, frustrations, and widespread opinions of a close mother and daughter. Best Companions is not to be missed!