Title Southern single blessedness : unmarried women in the urban South, 1800-1865 / Christine Jacobson Carter.

Publication Info.	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2006]
	©2006

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Description	x, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series	Women in American history
	Women in American history.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-216) and index.
Contents	Introduction : "more purity and active goodness" -- "Upon those shady banks-- to stand and view the busy world" : unmarried women's antebellum Savannah and Charleston -- "A glory such as marriage never gave" : the literature and ideology of urban southern single blessedness -- "At home where I am a very important personage" : dutiful daughters, single sisters, and maiden aunts -- "To know that you still love me" : female friends and female friendships -- "Seeking an extensive sphere of usefulness" : women's benevolence in antebellum Savannah and Charleston" -- "Such a strong personal love of the old place" : enclaves undone in Civil War Charleston and Savannah.
Subject	Women -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
	Women.
	Southern States.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	Social conditions.
	Single women -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century.
	Single women.
	Single women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century.
	South Carolina -- Charleston.
	Single women -- Georgia -- Savannah -- History -- 19th century.
	Georgia -- Savannah.
	Women.
	Womyn.
ISBN	0252030117 cloth alkaline paper
Standard No.	9780252030116