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

A vivid, real-life portrait of a determined woman-led enterprise in the Rice Belt. The book presents Patience Pennington’s story as she manages two large plantations in South Carolina, facing weather, labor, and market challenges with practical skill and steadfast resolve.

Through a plainly told narrative, the reader encounters a frontier of plantation life shaped by endurance, resourcefulness, and a humane approach to duty. The tale highlights a resilient woman who guides operations, negotiates tough obstacles, and remains thoughtful about the people who work for her, all while seeking a life of purpose beyond mere profit.

• Experience a firsthand account of plantation management in a historical Southern setting.


• See how leadership, persistence, and practical know-how shape everyday work and outcomes.


• Observe reflections on race, labor, and community voiced with tenderness and candor.


• Understand the personal costs and rewards of pioneering agricultural ventures during a time of upheaval.

Ideal for readers interested in women’s history, Southern history, and early American agriculture, especially those who value courage, practicality, and human insight in nonfiction.

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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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