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.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
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)
2PREFACE
3ILLUSTRATIONS
4PART I MY FATHER
5CHAPTER I ORIGIN OF THE TWO L ALLSTONS
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6CHAPTER II PLANTER AND CITIZEN
7CHAPTER III MY BROTHER’S NARRATIVE
8PART II MY MOTHER
9CHAPTER IV EARLY DAYS AND OLD FIELD SCHOOL
10CHAPTER V DADDY TOM AND DADDY PRINCE—DEATH OF LITTLE MOTHER SO BELOVED
11CHAPTER VI MARRIAGE
12CHAPTER VII MOVE TO CANAAN—AUNT BLYTHE
13CHAPTER VIII FIRST CHILD—PLANTATION LIFE
14CHAPTER IX FIRST GRIEVING
15PART III MYSELF
16CHAPTER X BABY WOES
17CHAPTER XI THE LITTLE SCHOOLHOUSE—BOARDING-SCHOOL
18CHAPTER XII SUMMER ON THE SEA—SCHOOL AND DELLA’S ILLNESS AND TRIP ABROAD—PAPA ELECTED GOVERNOR
19CHAPTER XIII CHRISTMAS AT CHICORA WOOD
20CHAPTER XIV LIFE IN CHARLESTON—PREPARATIONS FOR WAR
21CHAPTER XV BOARDING-SCHOOL IN WAR TIMES
22PART IV WAR TIMES
23CHAPTER XVI THE WEDDING
24CHAPTER XVII CROWLEY HILL—OUR PLACE OF REFUGE DURING THE WAR
25CHAPTER XVIII SORROW
26CHAPTER XIX LOCH ADÈLE
27CHAPTER XX SHADOWS
28CHAPTER XXI PREPARING TO MEET SHERMAN
29CHAPTER XXII THEY COME!
30CHAPTER XXIII DADDY HAMEDY’S APPEAL—IN THE TRACK OF SHERMAN’S ARMY
31CHAPTER XXIV SHADOWS DEEPEN
32CHAPTER XXV GLEAMS OF LIGHT
33CHAPTER XXVI TAKING THE OATH
34PART V READJUSTMENT
35CHAPTER XXVII GLEAMS OF LIGHT FROM MY DIARY
36CHAPTER XXVIII AUNT PETIGRU—MY FIRST GERMAN
37CHAPTER XXIX MAMMA’S SCHOOL
38CHAPTER XXX THE SCHOOL A SUCCESS
39CHAPTER XXXI 1868
40CHAPTER XXXII CHICORA WOOD
41CHAPTER XXXIII DADDY ANCRUM’S STORY
42Memorable Quotes
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