Eliza Lucas Pinckney
Book description
The award-winning biography of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, an innovative, highly regarded, and successful woman plantation owner during the Revolutionary era
"Glover not only recovers the life of a remarkable eighteenth-century woman, she also issues a challenge to the gendered narrative of the Age of Revolution. Eliza Lucas Pinckney would undoubtedly…
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1 author picked Eliza Lucas Pinckney as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The first scholarly biography of an unusual white woman who had a long career as a planter and agricultural innovator.
Pinckney was comfortable in wielding power, and she mixed with some of the most famous men and women in the Revolutionary Era. This book is also a page turner. I believe readers will enjoy the way it sheds light on the complexity of human behavior.
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