Sojourns in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865-1947 : from the ruins of war to the rise of tourism / edited by Jennie Holton Fant.

Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2019]

Format/Description:

Book
xxiv, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subjects:

Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- 19th century.
Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- 20th century.
South Carolina -- Charleston.

Form/Genre:

History.

Contents:

Four years under fire / W.F.G. Peck
City of desolation / Whitelaw Reid
The dead body of Charleston / Sidney Andrews
Charleston and its suburbs / Oliver Bell Bunce
Charleston, South Carolina: the Venice of America / Edward King
The petrel state / Sir George Campbell, M.P.
Inside southern cabins / "B." (Eliza Houston Barr)
A ghost of dead days / Lady Duffus Hardy
Enchanted / Owen Wister
Charleston / Charles Henry White
Where romance and courtesy do not forget / Edward Hungerford
Hospitable Charleston / Mrs. T.P. O'Connor (Betty Paschal O'Connor)
In Charleston, a travel sketch / William Dean Howells
The battle of Charleston 1918 / Norman Rockwell
And the garden was a fire of magenta / Amy Lowell
A lingering fragrance / Ludwig Lewisohn
Mr. Parsons' mansion / Schuyler Livingston Parsons
The song of Charleston / M.A. De Wolfe Howe
Supper at the Goose Creek Club / Emily Clark
Scouting for folk art / Holger Cahill
Charleston: the great myth / Edward Twig
Charleston plantations / May Sarton
With Maugham at Yemassee / Glenway Wescott
Charleston / Vashti Maxwell Grayson
These aristocratic paradises / Simone de Beauvoir.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

Fant, Jennie Holton, editor.

Other format:

Online version: Sojourns in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865-1947.

ISBN:

9781611179392
1611179394

OCLC:

1031423022

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