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Article: The Roman Years of a South Carolina Artist: Caroline Carson's Letters Home, 1872-1892.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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The Roman Years of a South Carolina Artist: Caroline Carson's Letters Home, 1872-1892. Edited and with an introduction by William H. Pease and Jane H. Pease. Women's Diaries and Letters of the South. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2003. Pp. xxxii, 275. $39.95, ISBN 1-57003-500-8.)
Caroline Carson, the elder daughter of South Carolina Unionist James L. Petigru, relocated permanently to Europe in 1872 to pursue her dream of becoming a painter. At fifty-two, Carson sought stability after nearly three decades of personal tumult. For most of the 1840s and 1850s Carson endured a variety of illnesses in addition to a loveless marriage to William ...