Mary's World: Love, War, and Family Ties in Nineteenth-Century Charleston Knitting published fifty years after his

published fifty years after his deat “Every sentence is packed with explosive power

Loud noises frighten Buster

but surely the greater sin lies in letting them slip away moment by precious moment

Tartuffe (Molière)

severe social injustices remained and would fester for another century

Mary's World: Love, War, and Family Ties in Nineteenth-Century Charleston Knitting published fifty years after hisBorn to affluence and opportunity in the South's Golden Age, Mary Motte Alston Pringle (1803 1884) represented the epitome of Southern white womanhood. Her husband, William, was a wealthy rice planter who owned four plantations and 337 slaves. Her thirteen children included two Harvard scholars, seven world travelers, three socialite daughters, a U. S. Navy war hero, six Confederate soldiers, one possible Union collaborator, a Confederate firebrand