A Notebook Containing Recollections of Rose Pringle Ravenel

Title

A Notebook Containing Recollections of Rose Pringle Ravenel

Creator

Ravenel, Rose P

Date

1920

Description

A notebook (ca. 1920) containing reminiscences by Rose P. Ravenel, who writes about her girlhood, her relationship with her "mammy" and her French nurse. She describes life at Farmfield Plantation during the Civil War, knitting socks for Confederate soldiers, making paper and envelopes, salt production, molasses candy, flower dolls, and the family's hardships after the Civil War.

Subject

Slavery
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Candlemaking
Christianity
Dolls--United States
Nannies
Salt
Women--Southern States
Enslaved persons
French language--Readers
Candy
Young women
Plantation life--Southern States--History
Tea making paraphernalia
Hair ornaments
Hairdressing
Soap trade--United States

Source

South Carolina Digital Library

Relation

https://rspace.library.cofc.edu/iiif/image/289081/full/200,/0/default.jpg

Type

image

References

https://lcdl.library.cofc.edu/lcdl/catalog/289081

Citation

Ravenel, Rose P, “A Notebook Containing Recollections of Rose Pringle Ravenel,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed June 27, 2026, http://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/39742.

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