American women's diaries, 1789-1984 (inclusive), [microform].

Brown, Mary Davis, 1822-1903

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Resident of York County, S.C.; wife of Robert Jackson Brown (1815-1887), and mother of eleven children, including Frances Vance Brown Land (1859-1938). From the description of Diary, 1860-1869. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 720383232 From the description of Mary Davis Brown papers, 1854-1994; (bulk, 1867-1901). (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 35671368 ...

Moore, Cornelia Jackson.

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Pringle, Elizabeth W. Allston (Elizabeth Waties Allston), 1845-1921

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Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (1845-1921) was the daughter of South Carolina Governor Robert F.W. Allston (1801-1864). She married John Julius Pringle (1842-1876) in 1870 and lived at White House Plantation (S.C). She became a widow at the age of thirty-one and moved to the Allston family plantation, Chicora Wood, to help her mother, Adele P. Allston, care for her widowed brother's children. She was the author of "A Woman Rice Planter" and "Chronicles of Chicora Wood" and she wrote under the ...

Cocke, Louisa Maxwell Holmes, 1788-1843.

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Member of Colonial Virginia family. From the description of Diaries [manuscript], 1816-1843. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647874477 ...

Hort, Mary, b. 1795?

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Crawford, Martha E. Foster, 1830-1881.

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Rogers, Martha, 1761-1840

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Bacot, Ada W., b. 1832.

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Lines, Jane Amelia Akehurst, fl. 1860.

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Ready, Alice, d. 1890.

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Burge, Dolly Lunt.

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Crawford, Sarah Anne Gayle, 1824-1913.

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Drew, Abigail Gardner, 1777-1868.

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Abigail Gardner Drew (1777-1868) was the daughter of George (1731-1785) and Rebekah Coffin Gardner (1741-1826) of Nantucket, Mass. George Gardner was a Justice of the Inferior Court. On April 16, 1795, Abigail Gardner married Gershom Drew, Jr. (1774-1826), of Nantucket, and they had two sons, Edwin (1800-1812) and George Gardner Drew (1803-1808). Norma Gardner of Oakdale, Mass., has told the Society that, according to family legend, Abigail Drew ran from her husband around 1800 in the company of...

McKaig, Priscilla Beall, 1819-1885.

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McCreary, Millie J., b. 1858.

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Bascom, Ruth Henshaw, 1772-1848

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Ruth Henshaw Bascom (1772-1848) was born in Leicester, Mass., the daughter of William (1735-1820) and Phebe Swan Henshaw (1753-1808). Her father was an influential Leicester resident, and Ruth Henshaw grew up as a member of a large and very active family. In 1804 she married Dr. Asa Miles (1762-1805), a physician who had graduated from Dartmouth College. They lived in Westminster, Mass., until his death, after which she returned to her family in Leicester. In 1806 she married the Re...

Cumming, Kate, 1835-1909

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Kate Cumming was a Confederate hospital matron, teacher and author. She was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1835 and as a child, moved with her family to Montreal, Canada, and then finally to Mobile, Ala. She lived comfortably in Mobile up to the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1862, when she volunteered to help in the Confederate hospitals as a nurse. She worked in the hospitals of the Army of Tennessee until the war's end. After the war she moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where she stayed unt...

Gayle, Sarah Haynesworth, 1795?-1835.

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Whittle, Grace Lattimer, fl. 1855-1861.

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Carney, Kate S., b. 1842.

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Huff, Sarah, 1856-1943.

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Howell, Mary David Hook, fl. 1870.

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Jackson, Eveline Harden, 1848-1928.

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Seawell, Molly Elliot, 1860-1916

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American author. From the description of Letter : Washington, D.C., to "Dear Sir", 1907 May 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22777901 Miss Seawell was a native of Gloucester County and lived most of her life in Washington, D.C. From the description of Papers, 1888-1912. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122539000 American novelist and short story writer, born in Virginia but lived most of her life in Washington, D.C. From the description of Let...

Brandon, Zillah Haynie, 1801-1871?

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Park, Louisa Adams, 1773-1813.

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Gray, Sarah Burge, 1855-1892.

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Greene, Cloe Tyler Whittle, 1843-1924.

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Robertson, Frances Jane Bestor, b. 1829.

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Gale, Hannah Davis, 1818-1851.

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Eaton, Harriet H. A., fl. 1855.

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LeConte, Emma.

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Emma Florence Le Conte Furman (1847-1932) married Farish Carter Furman (1846-1883) in 1869. They lived on the family plantation at Scottsboro, near Milledgeville, Georgia. Her diary of Columbia, South Carolina before and after the devastation by Sherman's forces was edited by E.S. Miers and published as When the World Ended (N.Y.: 1957). Farish Carter Furman was probably a grandson of Dorothea McDonald Furman and the Rev. Dr. Richard Furman (1755-1825), Baptist minister. Farish Carter Furman was...

Ripley, Sally, b. 1785.

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Sally Ripley (1785- ) was the daughter of Jerome Ripley of Greenfield, Mass. He was a merchant and civic and social leader in the town. In 1812 Sally married Charles Stearns (1781-1818), a merchant from Shelburne, Mass. They had four children. From the description of Diary, 1799-1801, 1805-1809. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 214278042 ...

White, Caroline Barrett, 1828-1915

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Caroline Barrett White (1828-1915) was the daughter of Benjamin Barrett (1786-1837) and Nancy Stone Barrett (1786-1866), of Ashburnham, Mass. In 1830, the family moved to Fitchburg, Mass., and later to Newport, N.H. Caroline Barrett taught school for several years in Ashburnham, Worcester, and Shirley, Mass., until her marriage in 1851 to Francis Adams White (1824-1910). White was the son of Aaron White, Jr. (1771-1846) and Mary Avery White (1778-1860), of Boylston, Mass., and the g...

Forbes, Susan E. Parsons Brown, 1824-1910.

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Clitherall, Carolyn Elizabeth Burgwin, 1784-1863.

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Burge, Louisiana D., 1844-1863.

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Mordecai, Emma, 1812-1906.

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