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Books by Carol Bleser
  | | In Joy and in Sorrow(1st Edition) Women, Family, and Marriage in the Victorian South, 1830-1900 by Carol Bleser, C. Vann Woodward, Anne Firor Scott Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1992 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-506048-5, ISBN: 0-19-506048-2 "In Joy and in Sorrow brings together some of the finest historians of the South in a sweeping exploration of the meaning of the family in this troubled region. In their vast canvas of the Victorian South, the authors explore the private lives of Senators, wealthy planters, and the belles of high society, along with the humblest slaves and sharecroppers, both white and black. Stretching from the height of the antebellum South's pride a ..." |
 | | The Hammonds of Redcliffe(Updated) by Carol Bleser Paperback, 462 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of South Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-57003-221-9, ISBN: 1-57003-221-1 "Drawing on four generations of family correspondence --reflecting the hopes, fears, desires, frustrations, and failures of an American family touched by personal scandal-- this book presents the saga of the Hammonds of Redcliffe from before the Civil War to after the New Deal. Set in Redcliffe, the plantation home of the Hammonds, this sweeping collection of letters, many of them by women, recaptures a way of life that is gone forever a ..." |
 | | The Hammonds of Redcliffe by Carol Bleser Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1987 by Oxford University Press, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-504984-8, ISBN: 0-19-504984-5 "Drawing on four generations of family correspondence --reflecting the hopes, fears, desires, frustrations, and failures of an American family touched by personal scandal-- this book presents the saga of the Hammonds of Redcliffe from before the Civil War to after the New Deal. Set in Redcliffe, the plantation home of the Hammonds, this sweeping collection of letters, many of them by women, recaptures a way of life that is gone forever ..." |
 | | The Hammonds of Redcliffe(1st Edition) by Carol Bleser Hardcover, 444 Pages, Published 1981 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-502920-8, ISBN: 0-19-502920-8 "Drawing on four generations of family correspondence --reflecting the hopes, fears, desires, frustrations, and failures of an American family touched by personal scandal-- this book presents the saga of the Hammonds of Redcliffe from before the Civil War to after the New Deal. Set in Redcliffe, the plantation home of the Hammonds, this sweeping collection of letters, many of them by women, recaptures a way of life that is gone forever ..." |
 | | Secret and Sacred The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, A Southern Slaveholder by Carol K. Bleser, James Henry Hammond Hardcover, 380 Pages, Published 1988 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-505308-1, ISBN: 0-19-505308-7 |
 | | Country Women Cope with Hard Times (WOMEN'S DIARIES AND LETTERS OF THE SOUTH) by Melissa Walker, Carol Bleser Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of South Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-57003-524-1, ISBN: 1-57003-524-5 ""It was hard times," French Carpenter Clark recalls, a sentiment unanimously echoed by the sixteen other women who talk about their lives in Country Women Cope with Hard Times. Born between 1890 and 1940 in eastern Tennessee and western South Carolina, these women grew up on farms, in labor camps, and in remote towns during an era when the region's agricultural system changed dramatically. As daughters and wives they milked cows, raised ..." |
 | | "Far, Far From Home"(2nd Edition) The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers by Guy R. Everson, Edward W. Simpson, Dick Simpson, Tally Simpson, Carol Bleser, Richard Wright Simpson, Taliaferro N. Simpson Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1994 by Oxford University Press, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-508664-5, ISBN: 0-19-508664-3 "In April 1861, Dick and Tally Simpson, sons of South Carolina Congressman Richard F. Simpson, enlisted in Company A of the Third South Carolina Volunteers of the Confederate army. Their letters home--published here for the first time--read like a historical novel, complete with plot, romance, character, suspense, and tragedy. In their last year of college when the war broke out, Dick and Tally were hastily handed their diplomas so they ..." |
 | | In Joy and in Sorrow Women, Family, and Marriage in the Victorian South, 1830-1900 by Carol Bleser 384 Pages, Published 1992 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-020769-4, ISBN: 0-19-020769-8 "The claim that slavery created an extended, biracial family or, more accurately, an enlarged household, contained a large dose of rationalization and self- serving cant, but it also contributed to a broadly held critique of the reigning transatlantic theories of property, government, and social order and to emerging alternate theories with portentous political implications. After the Civil War, the highly respected and politically i ..." |
 | | In Joy and in Sorrow Women, Family, and Marriage in the Victorian South, 1830-1900 by Carol Bleser 384 Pages, Published 1991 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-934423-9, ISBN: 0-19-934423-X "She is focusing on her own family, including her great-grandmother Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, a nineteenth-century diarist and active feminist. Mrs. Burr has edited the Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas journals, The Secret Eye, which was published by the Univ. of North Carolina Press in the spring of 1990. c A T n E R 1 N E c LIN r o N is a visiting professor of African-American studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Th ..." |
 | | Live Your Own Life The Family Papers of Mary Bayard Clarke, 1854-1886 (Women's Diaries and Letters of the South) by Mary Bayard Clarke, Terrell Armistead Crow, Mary Moulton Barden, Carol Bleser, Mary Bayard Hardcover, 466 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of South Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-57003-473-2, ISBN: 1-57003-473-7 "Balancing literary aspiration with gender limitations in the nineteenth-century South; Mary Bayard Clarke (1827-1886) grew up in a North Carolina planter family that revered southern traditions, but she was not a woman to be stymied by conventional expectations. A writer of ambition and ability, she published poetry and prose, traveled widely, corresponded with prominent men and women of her day, and repeatedly challenged stereotypes of ..." |
 | | Walking by Faith(Updated) The Diary of Angelina Grimke, 1828-1835 (Women's Diaries and Letters of the South) by Charles L. Wilbanks, Angelina Emily Grimke, Angelina Weld Grimke, Carol Bleser, Carol K. Bleser, Angelina Emily Grimkâe Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2003 by University Of South Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-57003-511-1, ISBN: 1-57003-511-3 "The diary that Angelina Grimké (18051879) kept from 1828 through 1835 offers a window into the spiritual struggles and personal evolution of a woman who would become one of the nation's most fervent abolitionists. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, and an heir to a family enterprise dependent on slave labor, Grimké was an unlikely supporter of emancipation. Only after years of inner turmoil did she leave the South to join her sist ..." |
 | | Intimate Strategies of the Civil War(1st Edition) Military Commanders and Their Wives by Carol K. Bleser, Lesley J. Gordon Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2007 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-533085-4, ISBN: 0-19-533085-4 |
 | | Secret and Sacred(Updated) The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, a Southern Slaveholder by James Henry Hammond, Carol K. Bleser Paperback, 380 Pages, Published 1997 by University Of South Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-57003-222-6, ISBN: 1-57003-222-X |
 | | Tokens of Affection(1st Edition) The Letters of a Planter's Daughter in the Old South (Southern Voices from the Past: Women's Letters, Diaries, and Writings Ser.) by Maria Bryant, Carol K. Bleser Hardcover, 444 Pages, Published 1996 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-1727-4, ISBN: 0-8203-1727-6 |
 | | Intimate Strategies of the Civil War(1st Edition) Military Commanders and Their Wives by Lesley J. Gordon, Carol K. Bleser, Lesley Bleser, Lesley Jill Gordon Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2001 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-511509-3, ISBN: 0-19-511509-0 |
 | | In Joy and in Sorrow(1st Edition) Women, Family, and Marriage in the Victorian South, 1830-1900 by Carol K. Bleser Hardcover, 382 Pages, Published 1991 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-506047-8, ISBN: 0-19-506047-4 |
 | | Secret and Sacred(Reprint) The Diaries of James Henry Hammond, A Southern Slaveholder Bleser, Carol K. by Carol K. Bleser, James Henry Hammond Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1989 by Oxford Univ Pr (T) ISBN-13: 978-0-19-506163-5, ISBN: 0-19-506163-2 |
 | | The Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge, 1848–1879(Updated) (Southern Voices from the Past: Women's Letters, Diaries, and Writings Ser.) by Dolly Lunt Burge, Christine Jacobson Carter, Carol K. Bleser, Burge/Carter Paperback, 316 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of Georgia Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-2859-1, ISBN: 0-8203-2859-6 "The Diary of Dolly Lunt Burge is the compelling story of an ordinary woman rising to meet extraordinary challenges in nineteenth-century Georgia. Dolly Lunt Burge's full life was remarkable for the range of roles she filled and the variety of her experiences. That her life coincided with critical transformations in America and that she recorded her experiences within this historical context make her diary all the more noteworthy. Burge ..." |
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