Description
First published in 1949, Belvidere chronicles life at the plantation through letters, memoir, and historical research. When Fishburne gathered the materials that compose this volume, she merely wished to preserve for her grandchildren the story of the plantation that was her beloved home and that of many generations of her forebears. Written in an invitingly authentic Lowcountry voice, the resulting narrative is an opportunity to sit on the piazza and walk the gardens once more and share stories of a way of life from a bygone era. Featuring twenty-four illustrations, this commemorative edition of Belvidere is enhanced with a new introduction by Fishburne's granddaughter Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq, an accomplished family historian, author, and editor.
About the Author
Anne Sinkler Fishburne (1886-1983), a daughter of Charles St. George Sinkler and Anne Wickham Porcher Sinkler, was married to William Kershaw Fishburne, a Berkeley County, South Carolina, public-health doctor. She was a favorite niece of Elizabeth Allen Sinkler Coxe and travelled with her on the 1910 Orient Express trip described in this book and on many other expeditions.
Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq (1942-2014), a native of Charleston, was a granddaughter of Anne Wickham Sinkler Fishburne. LeClercq was also the author of An Antebellum Plantation Household: Including the South Carolina Lowcountry Receipts and Remedies of Emily Wharton Sinkler and A Grand Tour of Gardens: Traveling in Beauty through Western Europe and the United States and the editor of Between North and South: The Letters of Emily Wharton Sinkler, 1842-1865 and Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910.
Book Information
ISBN 9781611175547
Author Anne Sinkler Fishburne
Format Paperback
Page Count 184
Imprint University of South Carolina Press
Publisher University of South Carolina Press