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Pease, William Henry was born on August 31, 1924 in Winchendon, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Clarence Albert Grover and Arline Greenlee (Brooks) Pease.
(Pursuing the meaning of gender in nineteenth-century urba...)
Pursuing the meaning of gender in nineteenth-century urban American society, Ladies, Women, and Wenches compares the lives of women living in two distinctive antebellum cultures, Charleston and Boston, between 1820 and 1850. In contrast to most contemporary histories of women, this study examines the lives of all types of women in both cities: slave and free, rich and poor, married and single, those who worked mostly at home and those who led more public lives. Jane Pease and William Pease argue that legal, political, economic, and cultural contraints did limit the options available to women. Nevertheless, women had opportunities to make meaningful choices about their lives and sometimes to achieve considerable autonomy. By comparing the women of Charleston and Boston, the authors explore how both urbanization and regional differences -- especially with regard to slavery -- governed all women's lives. They assess the impact of marriage and work on women's religious, philanthropic, and reform activity and examine the female uses of education and property in order to illuminate the considerable variation in women's lives. Finally, they consider women's choices of life-style, ranging from compliance with to defiance of increasingly rigid social precepts defining appropriate female behavior. However bound women were by society's prescriptions describing their role or by the class structure of their society, they chose their ways of life from among such options as spinsterhood or marriage, domesticity or paid work, charitable activity or the social whirl, the solace of religion or the escape of drink. Drawing on a variety of sources including diaries, court documents, and contemporary literature, Ladies, Women, and Wenches explores how the women of Charleston and Boston made the choices in their lives between total dependence and full autonomy.
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(Caroline Petigru Carson (1820-1892), the elder daughter o...)
Caroline Petigru Carson (1820-1892), the elder daughter of Charleston intellectual James Louis Petigru and sister of the novelist Susan Petigru King, seemed destined from birth for life as a southern plantation mistress. Yet, like her sister, Carson challenged the conventions of nineteenth-century Charleston and defied traditional expectations by living apart from her husband and later as a very merry widow. Like her father unwilling to support secession, Carson, a staunch Unionist, left her native South Carolina at the onset of the Civil War. She settled first in New York and then, a decade later, in Rome among the prestigious social circles for which her background and bearing fitted her. In both locales she created for herself the life of an artist and southern expatriate. From Italy, Carson wrote hundreds of discursive letters to her younger son in America. Gathered in this collection, these narratives offer intimate insights into the emotional life of a mature woman, the accomplishments of an artist determined both to perfect her craft and sell her work, and the intellectual and social pursuits of a well-educated, vivacious American living abroad. With painterly eye and incisive pen, Carson vividly portrays both the life she observed and the life she led in Rome. Her letters reverberate with street scenes, riots and demonstrations, secular celebrations of a newly united Italy and traditional religious pageantry, an intense friendship with a Roman duke, and the scandalous lives of her fellow Americans. Interspersed are snatches of conversations with artists, writers, and famous visitors to the Eternal City, many of whom she lured to her weekly salon. Letters written in the summer from Italian, Swiss, and German resorts depict not only the contrasting styles of wealthy American tourists and vacationing European aristocrats but the coastal and mountain scenery that is also pictured in the Carson paintings that are included in this volume.
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For the Southern Baptist Preacher, teacher and layman alike, for any student of Church or secular history or any other person who wishes to br informed about the largest non-Catholic religious body in America, this volume is a must.
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(In the three decades before the Civil War, James Louis Pe...)
In the three decades before the Civil War, James Louis Petigru became the dean of the South Carolina bar and Charleston's leading exponent of the constitutional conservatism that placed federal union above state rights, the economic views that underlay Whig politics, and the liberal vision of individual rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights. In the only modern biography of Petigru, William H. and Jane H. Pease trace the rise to social and professional preeminence that not only placed him among South Carolina's elite but also gave him national visibility. In doing so, they explore the workings of the extended family he headed, the politics of the state he loved, and the intricacies of the legal system he mastered. Central to Petigru's life was the ambiguity into which his competing loyalties plunged him. Loyal to his native state, he was a vocal opponent of its political values. Despite his dissent on the critical issues of nullification and secession, Petigru was elected attorney general, served as a state representative, and codified the state's laws. Born in South Carolina's upcountry to a family of Scots-Irish and Huguenot ancestry, Petrigru achieved such high distinction as an attorney and politician that both Confederates and Yankees eulogized him when he died in Charleston in 1863. Throughout his career, his espousal of private property, individual liberty, the rule of law, and the United States Constitution remained unflinching and gave Petigru the wisdom and assurance to be the state's most notable dissenter.
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Pease, William Henry was born on August 31, 1924 in Winchendon, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Clarence Albert Grover and Arline Greenlee (Brooks) Pease.
Bachelor, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1947. Master of Arts, University Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy, University Rochester, Rochester, New York, 1955.
Teacher Mount Hermon School, Massachusetts, 1948—1951. Instructor to associate professor Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, 1955—1964. Visiting professor Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, 1957—1958.
Fulbright lecturer International People's College, Elsinore, Denmark, 1961—1962. Associate professor University Calgary, Canada, 1964—1966. From associate professor to professor University Maine, Orono, 1966—1988.
Associate in history College Charleston, South Carolina, since 1988. Fulbright lecturer University Genoa, Italy, 1985. Referee, faculty research grants, history City University of New York, 1975, Canada Government, Ottawa, Canada, 1986.
(In the three decades before the Civil War, James Louis Pe...)
(For the Southern Baptist Preacher, teacher and layman ali...)
(Pursuing the meaning of gender in nineteenth-century urba...)
(Caroline Petigru Carson (1820-1892), the elder daughter o...)
(This book reconstructs the experiences of two major Ameri...)
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Member of South Carolina History Society, Southern History Association, Organization of America Historians, American History Association, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
Married Jane Hanna Pease, June 9, 1950.