A Woman Rice Planter (Classic Reprint): Patience Pennington - Couverture souple

Elizabeth W. Allston Pringle

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331652049 ISBN 13 : 9781331652045

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Remarkable real‑life farming leadership from the Civil War era to the present

This candid account follows a Southern woman who runs two large rice plantations, facing harsh floods, shifting economies, and the daily demands of plantation life. Skill, persistence, and a compassionate spirit come through in a plainly told narrative that centers on practical work, steady management, and the challenges of adapting when old systems collapse.

Her story offers a window into how one woman navigates logistics, crop cycles, and community needs in a demanding agrarian world. It presents the practical details of planting and caring for crops, managing labor, and weathering political and economic change, all told with human warmth and an eye for resilience.

• A firsthand look at plantation administration and crop management during a time of upheaval
• Everyday tasks described clearly, from planting to harvest to household duties
• Reflections on leadership, resourcefulness, and the role of women in running large estates
• Context on the social and historical backdrop of the era, tied to a personal, ongoing diary

Ideal for readers of historical memoirs and women's history who value grounded, character-driven narratives about endurance, work, and community.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from A Woman Rice Planter: Patience Pennington

While the influences and mechanisms of the present world tend to make all parts of it alike in thought and in costume, the various nooks and corners of our own country are gradually losing their original highly accentuated characteristics, and are merging into a general similarity. Most of what you hear and see any morning in the towns of Massachusetts you will hear and see in Omaha, Denver, Seattle, or anywhere else, because the department stores advertise and sell the same kind of clothes everywhere at the same time, and the same news is everywhere published in the daily papers.

Our American literature is therefore very lucky to have produced its Jewetts, Wilkinses, Cables, Craddocks, Pages, and Harrises, who have well set down for our perpetual interest and instruction the evaporating charm of their chosen fields.

Here is another book belonging to this valuable indigenous shelf of ours, a shelf where stand the volumes that tell of people and events that could have been met with nowhere in the world save upon our own native soil. Although it is not fiction, but a record of personal experience, it should prove to many readers as entertaining as our best fiction.

It is about the South, a particular part of the South, the rice-plantation coast of South Carolina. In this region, field and water and forest intermingle to form a strange, haunting scene, full of character and mystery. To dine with a neighbor here, one needs both the horse and the boat; travel has to be amphibious. And in this region, too, the marks that were made by the old days have been by the new days obliterated less than in most parts of our country.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331652049
• ISBN 13: 9781331652045
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 472
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