Behind the Scenes: Sketches of Selected South Carolina First Ladies - Hardcover

Milliken, Helen

9780967901640: Behind the Scenes: Sketches of Selected South Carolina First Ladies

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0967901642 ISBN 13: 9780967901640

Publisher: Palmetto Conservation Foundation, 2001

In this, the first and only thorough examination of South Carolina's First Ladies, researcher Helen Milliken explores the lives of 50 women who served South Carolina alongside their husbands, the governors. "Behind the Scenes" includes important geneaological details, new historical facts and remains an important addition to women's studies and South Carolina history.

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From the Inside Flap:

For the first time anywhere... historical accounts of 50 fascinating South Carolina First Ladies!

Southern belles:
“An excellent musician, fluent in French and so beautiful the Mississippi legislature once took a recess in her honor, Lucy Petway Holcombe Pickens was a true Southern belle of the Deep South. Some even claim (really!) that she was the inventor of iced tea”

Tragic accounts:
“Within seconds, Mrs. McSweeney’s clothes had caught fire and neither woman was able to extinguish the blaze. She only lived for several more hours, dying shortly after 1 p.m. that same day.”

Rare details:
“Plain, fatherless and shy, (Catherine Fitzsimons) met and fell for James Henry Hammond when she was only 15. It was the classic union of an ambitious politician to a vulnerable, wealthy heiress.”

About the Author:

Helen Milliken received her masters of Arts degree in History in 1991 from the University of South Carolina, and since then has enjoyed a career in the fascinating field of geneaological and historical research. She has since had a variety of of research requests ranging from the Chicora Indian Tribe to a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist.

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