{"id":2234,"date":"2014-12-14T03:10:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-14T03:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=2234"},"modified":"2018-04-17T18:51:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T18:51:41","slug":"new-courtship-letters-from-the-1840s-south","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/?page_id=2234","title":{"rendered":"New courtship letters from the 1840s South"},"content":{"rendered":"

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January 1, 2015<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Belles of Williamsburg<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Courtship Correspondence of Eliza Fisk Harwood and Tristrim Lowther Skinner<\/p>\n

1839-1849<\/p>\n

Edited by Mary Maillard<\/p>\n

ebook ISBN 978-0-9917893-1-3 January 2015<\/p>\n

$35.00 from Kindle<\/span><\/a>, iBooks<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Kobo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The Skinner Family Papers<\/a>\u00a0project is pleased to announce the publication of its third ebook of antebellum letters<\/a> selected from the Skinner Family Papers\u00a0housed at the University of North Carolina\u2019s Southern Historical Collection.<\/p>\n

With a uniquely organized name index<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0rich\u00a0annotations, The Belles of Williamsburg: <\/em>The Courtship Letters of Eliza Fisk Harwood and Tristrim Lowther Skinner 1839-1849<\/em><\/a> sheds new light on the complex social, familial, and romantic elements of antebellum courtship in a decade not well represented among available primary sources.<\/p>\n

A fascinating family story emerges from these documents<\/a>, unique in its depth, scope and continuity. The detailed descriptions of everyday life challenge our contemporary ideas of belles and debutante balls, redefine this society within the context of a devastating economic collapse, and dispel the Gone With the Wind<\/em> myth of a languid planter class basking in sun-drenched abundance.<\/p>\n

The Belles of Williamsburg completes the antebellum ebook series<\/a> launched in 2014 with\u00a0On the Carpet: The Coming of Age Letters of Penelope Skinner 1832-1840<\/em><\/a> and\u00a0Albemarle Son: The Coming of Age Letters of Tristrim Lowther Skinner 1833-1849<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mary Maillard’s monograph, A Map of Time and Blood: An Introduction to the Skinner Family Papers 1826-1850<\/em><\/a> presents an overview of\u00a0the Skinner family of Edenton, North Carolina, spanning the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century.\u00a0As Maillard explains, the Skinners\u2019 attitudes towards slavery<\/a> were complex, contradictory, and conflicted, particularly in that the family had evolved in three generations from antislavery Quakers to slaveholding planter elites.<\/p>\n

Eloquent and considered, the letters are a pleasure to read and would appeal to students, historians, and non-academics interested in the South and its history.<\/p>\n

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\u001b~~~~~~ January 1, 2015 \u00a0 The Belles of Williamsburg The Courtship Correspondence of Eliza Fisk Harwood and Tristrim Lowther Skinner 1839-1849 Edited by Mary Maillard ebook ISBN 978-0-9917893-1-3 January 2015 $35.00 from Kindle, iBooks,\u00a0Kobo The Skinner Family Papers\u00a0project is pleased … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1699,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4M6TH-A2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2234"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3903,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2234\/revisions\/3903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skinnerfamilypapers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}