Mistress of Riversdale: The Plantation Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert 1795-1821
Entry/Object ID
2020-0003-0011
Description
Rosalie Stier Calvert was one of America's richest women and maintained the largest collection of European art in America. She and her husband counted the George Washingtons as relatives and seemed to know everyone in Washington and Maryland society. And in these letters (translated from the French) to her European relatives, she provides both an account of America's early history and an account of a (rich white) woman's role in day-to-day family life.
Physical Description: xv, 407 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Collection
Laurel Museum Collection
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Book
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Other Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials
Social life, Plantation owners, Plantations, Tobacco plantations, Child rearing, Women
