| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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A Family of Women: The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War. By Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xviii, 328 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8078-2505-0.)

When Adele Petigru shocked her family with her decision to marry Robert Allston in 1832, she explained her choice to her sister, Louise Petigru Porcher, by saying, "Louise, you want to know why I am going to marry Robert Allston? I will tell you:—because he is as obstinate as the devil. In our family we lack will-power; that is our weakness." While the men of the Petigru family—the name changed from the more pedestrian Pettigrew by the family patriarch, James Louis Petigru, in 1812—may have lacked willpower, the women certainly did not. In this sweeping saga, Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease trace three generations of extraordinary women who were born to, or married into, the Petigru clan. Spanning nearly an entire century, the lives and letters of this group of elite South Carolinians bear out the authors' claim that "being privileged neither sheltered ladies from the perils of South Carolina's climate nor exempted them from experiences common to almost all nineteenth-century women." . . .

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