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Boardinghouse women : how southern keepers, cooks, nurses, widows, and runaways shaped modern America /

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Elizabeth Engelhardt argues that modern American food, business, caretaking, politics, sex, travel, writing and restaurants all owe a debt to boardinghouse women in the South. From the eighteenth century well into the twentieth, entrepreneurial women ran boardinghouses throughout the South. Some als...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Engelhardt, Elizabeth S. D. (Elizabeth Sanders Delwiche), 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2023].
Subjects:
Boardinghouses > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Boardinghouses > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Boardinghouses > Social aspects > Southern States.
Women in the hospitality industry > Southern States.
Women > Southern States > Social life and customs.
Women > Southern States > Economic conditions.
Women > Political activity > Southern States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
COOKING / History.
Table of Contents:
  • Like no other business in the world
  • The invention of southern food: Mary Randolph and Malinda Russell
  • Boardinghouse keepers as business innovators: Alice Lee Larkins and Julia Wolfe
  • Caretaking, nurturing, and nursing: Huldah Sarvice and Texie Gordon
  • Using boardinghouses for political ends: Mary Ellen Pleasant and Mary Surratt
  • Sex, drink, and seduction: Sarah Hinton and Lola Walker
  • Safe passage in Jim Crow's boardinghouses: Jackie Mabley and Frank Gilbert
  • Boardinghouse rooms of their own: Anne Royall and Ida May Beard
  • Creating modern southern lunches: Mary Hamilton and Della McCullers
  • Boardinghouse futures: Airbnb, assisted living, and side hustling.