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Southern Single Blessedness: Unmarried Women in the Urban South, 1800-1865 (Women in American History)
January 2, 2006, University of Illinois Press
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Southern single blessedness: unmarried women in the urban South, 1800-1865
2005, University of Illinois Press
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Table of 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.
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