Chronicles of Chicora Wood (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Lowcountry Memoir of Rice Plantation Life, Civil War Aftermath, and Reconstruction-Era ChangeBy Elizabeth W. Allston Pringle
Length7h 27m
About this audiobook
Chronicles of Chicora Wood is a reflective plantation chronicle that gathers family memory, local history, and documentary recollection around one of the notable rice estates of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Written in a cultivated, elegiac prose, the book moves between domestic anecdote, social observation, and historical witness, situating Chicora Wood within the broader world of antebellum rice culture, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the gradual dissolution of an old agrarian order. Its literary context is that of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Southern memoir, valuable both for its detail and for the limits of its planter-class perspective. Elizabeth W. Allston Pringle was born into the prominent Allston family and inherited intimate knowledge of the Waccamaw plantations, their households, and their economic burdens. As a woman who managed rice lands after emancipation and wrote under the name Patience Pennington, she brought to her work firsthand experience of agricultural labor, family responsibility, and regional change. Her background deeply shaped both the authority and the biases of her narrative. This book is recommended to readers interested in Southern history, women's life-writing, plantation studies, and the cultural memory of the Lowcountry. Read critically, it offers a richly textured, historically revealing portrait of a vanished world.
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- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
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Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length7 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 30, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chronicles of Chicora Wood (Annotated)
22PART IV WAR TIMES
2PREFACE
23CHAPTER XVI THE WEDDING
3ILLUSTRATIONS
24CHAPTER XVII CROWLEY HILL—OUR PLACE OF REFUGE DURING THE WAR
4PART I MY FATHER
25CHAPTER XVIII SORROW
5CHAPTER I ORIGIN OF THE TWO L ALLSTONS
26CHAPTER XIX LOCH ADÈLE
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6CHAPTER II PLANTER AND CITIZEN
27CHAPTER XX SHADOWS
7CHAPTER III MY BROTHER’S NARRATIVE
28CHAPTER XXI PREPARING TO MEET SHERMAN
8PART II MY MOTHER
29CHAPTER XXII THEY COME!
9CHAPTER IV EARLY DAYS AND OLD FIELD SCHOOL
30CHAPTER XXIII DADDY HAMEDY’S APPEAL—IN THE TRACK OF SHERMAN’S ARMY
10CHAPTER V DADDY TOM AND DADDY PRINCE—DEATH OF LITTLE MOTHER SO BELOVED
31CHAPTER XXIV SHADOWS DEEPEN
11CHAPTER VI MARRIAGE
32CHAPTER XXV GLEAMS OF LIGHT
12CHAPTER VII MOVE TO CANAAN—AUNT BLYTHE
33CHAPTER XXVI TAKING THE OATH
13CHAPTER VIII FIRST CHILD—PLANTATION LIFE
34PART V READJUSTMENT
14CHAPTER IX FIRST GRIEVING
35CHAPTER XXVII GLEAMS OF LIGHT FROM MY DIARY
15PART III MYSELF
36CHAPTER XXVIII AUNT PETIGRU—MY FIRST GERMAN
16CHAPTER X BABY WOES
37CHAPTER XXIX MAMMA’S SCHOOL
17CHAPTER XI THE LITTLE SCHOOLHOUSE—BOARDING-SCHOOL
38CHAPTER XXX THE SCHOOL A SUCCESS
18CHAPTER XII SUMMER ON THE SEA—SCHOOL AND DELLA’S ILLNESS AND TRIP ABROAD—PAPA ELECTED GOVERNOR
39CHAPTER XXXI 1868
19CHAPTER XIII CHRISTMAS AT CHICORA WOOD
40CHAPTER XXXII CHICORA WOOD
20CHAPTER XIV LIFE IN CHARLESTON—PREPARATIONS FOR WAR
41CHAPTER XXXIII DADDY ANCRUM’S STORY
21CHAPTER XV BOARDING-SCHOOL IN WAR TIMES
42Memorable Quotes
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