Memoirs of the life of Martha Laurens Ramsay. With an appendix, containing extracts from her diary, letters, and other private papers; and also, from letters written to her by her father, Henry Laurens, 1771-1776
A member of a distinguished South Carolina family, Martha Laurens Ramsay was one of few eighteenth-century Southern women whose written records provide a window into her life, her experiences, convictions, and ambivalences during the crucial epoch of the nation's founding decades. Ramsay's spiritual diary and correspondence reveal her views on patriotism, daughterly duty, household management, wifely affection, motherly aspiration, and personal autonomy
Print Book, English, 1815
Reprinted by Burton and Briggs; sold also by J. Hatchard, London, 1815
autobiographies (literary works)
xv, 259 pages 20 cm
4260405