Overview
At the age of nineteen Emily Wharton married Charles Sinkler and moved eight hundred miles from her Philadelphia home to a cotton plantation in an isolated area in the South Carolina Lowcountry. In monthly letters to her northern family, she recorded keen observations about her adopted home, and in a receipt book she assembled a trusted collection of culinary and medicinal recipes reflecting her ties to both North and South. Together with an extensive biographical and historical introduction by Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq, these documents provide a flavorful record of plantation cooking, folk medicine, travel, and social life in the antebellum South.
- | Author: Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq
- | Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
- | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2015
- | Number of Pages: 181 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1611175429
- | ISBN-13: 9781611175424
