Mary's World: Love, War, and Family Ties in Nineteenth-Century Charleston Knitting Tartuffe (Molière)

Tartuffe (Molière)

but surely the greater sin lies in letting them slip away moment by precious moment

Franklin Graham

The morning of Agatha Raisin's long-awaited marriage to her attractive and elusive neighbor

Mary's World: Love, War, and Family Ties in Nineteenth-Century Charleston Knitting Tartuffe (Molière)Born to affluence and opportunity in the South's Golden Age, Mary Motte Alston Pringle (1803 1884) represented the epitome of Southern white womanhood. Her husband, William, was a wealthy rice planter who owned four plantations and 337 slaves. Her thirteen children included two Harvard scholars, seven world travelers, three socialite daughters, a U. S. Navy war hero, six Confederate soldiers, one possible Union collaborator, a Confederate firebrand