A Family of Women: The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War
- ISBN-10
- 0807825050
- ISBN-13
- 9780807825051
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 328
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- UNC Press Books
- Authors
- Jane H. Pease, William Henry Pease
Description
"Ultimately, the failure of more than one-half of the third generation of Petigru women to marry shattered the family's continuity."--BOOK JACKET.
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