| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.4

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Jane H. Pease and William H. Pease. A Family of Women: The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1999. Pp. xv, 328. $29.95.

This book is a good read. Such a claim is occasionally made for fiction but all too seldom for academic studies. Jane H. and William H. Pease have done a remarkable job of constructing a lucid and engaging narrative out of the thousands of letters and numerous diaries and memoirs written by the daughters, granddaughters, and female in-laws of Louise Gibert Petigrew. Ironically, they have been able to tell their tale of these women by delineating the pivotal role played by Louise's son, James, in advancing the family's fortunes and keeping kin together. 1

Louise, daughter of a Huguenot cleric, married a Scots-Irish farmer of modest means in the Abbeville district, with whom she had nine children. James attended Moses Waddel's acclaimed academy and, with borrowed funds, went on to South Carolina College. He passed the bar, changed the spelling of the family's name to Pettigru, and married the daughter of a lowcountry planter. Having thus successfully ensconced himself among the Charleston elite, he became equally successful at encouraging advantageous marriages for his sisters, daughters, and nieces. . . .

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