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

by Christine Jacobson Carter

Book Overview

In this study, Christine Jacobson Carter uncovers interesting lives of single women in the bustling urban centres of 19th-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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252030117
• ISBN13: 9780252030116
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"