Three Oclock Dinner Adapted From The Novel Ny Josephine Pinckney
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Author | : Josephine Pinckney |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781570034237 |
"Three O'Clock Dinner is a delight."--Weekly Book Review First published in 1945 to international acclaim and winner of the Southern Authors Award, Three O'Clock Dinner is Josephine Pinckney's best-selling novel about an ill-fated marriage on the eve of World War II. This powerful tale written by a consummate Charleston insider and set in the historic city resonates with universal appeal by daring to touch on topics that had been taboo. Three O'Clock Dinner reveals how the modern world has intruded in a most unwelcome way upon the Redcliffs, a Charleston family long on pedigree but short on cash. Mortified when their son "Tat" elopes with the henna-hairied daughter of the Hessenwinkles, an especially galling bourgeois clan, the Redcliffs are determined to respond with civility. They invite their son, his new wife, and her family for Sunday dinner, served at the traditional time of three in the afternoon. Tension builds across an expanse of white damask. After mint julep aperitifs, dinner claret, and Madeira toasts, a chance remark ignites the novel's climax amid a flurry of raised voices, hurt feelings, and broken china. Their new daughter-in-law's revelation further shatters the Redcliffs' well-ordered society but opens a door to forgiveness and redemption.
Author | : William N. Banks (jr) |
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Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Promptbooks |
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Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1945 |
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Author | : Barbara L. Bellows |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2006-06-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 080715735X |
Josephine Pinckney (1895--1957) was an award-winning, best-selling author whose work critics frequently compared to that of Jane Austen, Edith Wharton, and Isak Dinesen. Her flair for storytelling and trenchant social commentary found expression in poetry, five novels -- Three O'Clock Dinner was the most successful -- stories, essays, and reviews. Pinckney belonged to a distinguished South Carolina family and often used Charleston as her setting, writing in the tradition of Ellen Glasgow by blending social realism with irony, tragedy, and humor in chronicling the foibles of the South's declining upper class. Barbara L. Bellows has produced the first biography of this very private woman and emotionally complex writer, whose life story is also the history of a place and time -- Charleston in the first half of the twentieth century. In A Talent for Living, Pinckney's life unfolds like a novel as she struggles to escape aristocratic codes and the ensnaring bonds of southern ladyhood and to embrace modern freedoms. In 1920, with DuBose Heyward and Hervey Allen, she founded the Poetry Society of South Carolina, which helped spark the southern literary renaissance. Her home became a center of intellectual activity with visitors such as the poet Amy Lowell, the charismatic presidential candidate Wendell Willkie, and the founding editor of theSaturday Review of Literature Henry Seidel Canby. Sophisticated and cosmopolitan, she absorbed popular contemporary influences, particularly that of Freudian psychology, even as she retained an almost Gothic imagination shaped in her youth by the haunting, tragic beauty of the Low Country and its mystical Gullah culture. A skilled stylist, Pinckney excelled in creating memorable characters, but she never scripted an individual as engaging or intriguing as herself. Bellows offers a fascinating, exhaustively researched portrait of this onetime cultural icon and her well-concealed personal life.
Author | : Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle |
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Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Georgetown County (S.C.) |
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Author | : Josephine Pinckney |
Publisher | : New York : Viking Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : American fiction |
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The fortunes of a dynamic, self-centered Charleston business man and his socialite wife, from 1914 to 1947.
Author | : Barbara L. Bellows |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2006-06-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0807157341 |
Bellows has produced the first biography of this very private woman and emotionally complex writer, whose life story is also the history of a place and time - Charleston in the first half of the twentieth century.".
Author | : Herb Reich |
Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2011-01-02 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1616080841 |
A compendium of trivia about the numbers one through one hundred.
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Publisher | : HarperChristian + ORM |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2001-02-27 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1418573256 |
Test your Palmetto State knowledge with this trivia book covering its rich history, geography, sports, culture, notable figures, and more! As one of the original thirteen colonies and the site of the first Civil War battle, South Carolina is a fascinating state, and South Carolina Trivia is full of facts to prove it. This book is the ultimate resource on the who, what, when, where, why, and how of the Palmetto State. Filled with curious questions and fascinating answers, South Carolina Trivia will provide hours of entertainment and education. Easily adaptable for use with trivia format games, it focuses on the history, culture, people, and places of California.
Author | : Ted Phillips, Jr. |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2023-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1643364146 |
Charleston is a city of stories. As in any city of historical significance, some of its best stories now lie buried with its dead. Ted Ashton Phillips, Jr., was custodian of many of the stories of those Charlestonians interred in Magnolia Cemetery, the picturesque burial ground located along the Cooper River north of downtown. Phillips's fascination with Magnolia began at the age of sixteen, when he worked there as a groundskeeper and assistant gravedigger. He followed his passion into the research represented in this collective biography of more than two hundred representative Charlestonians from many eras, now buried among the thirty thousand permanent residents of Magnolia Cemetery. Taking its title from the poem that William Gilmore Simms delivered at the 1850 consecration of the cemetery, City of the Silent is a unique guide to some of the complex personalities who have contributed to the Holy City's rich culture. The book includes entries on writers, artists, statesmen, educators, religious leaders, scientists, war heroes, financiers, captains of industry, slave traders, socialites, criminals, victims, and others. Some of these men and women are as distinguished as author Josephine Pinckney, civil rights champion J. Waties Waring, and artist Alice Ravenel Huger Smith. Others are as notorious as bootlegger Frank "Rumpty Rattles" Hogan, adulterous killer Dr. Thomas McDow, and brothel-keeper Belle Percival. Most of Phillips's subjects achieved prominence while alive, but a few are better known for their manner of death. The members of the third and final crew of the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley, interred with great ceremony in 2004 after the discovery of their vessel in Charleston harbor, are among the newest Magnolia residents depicted in the portrait gallery. Each authoritative profile offers a vivid depiction of a memorable individual rendered in conversational tone with refreshing wit and apt anecdotes. These artfully braided stories describe an intricate network of family ties, civic institutions, business enterprises, and local landmarks. Together the biographies provide an affectionate, insightful history of an influential society and establish Magnolia as a center of community traditions that extend from the mid–nineteenth century to the present. City of the Silent is a celebration of intertwining lives and an engrossing account of Charleston's past as witnessed by those no longer able to tell their own tales. In addition to the biographical sketches, City of the Silent includes a foreword by Josephine Humphreys, Charleston writer and longtime friend of the author, and an afterword by Phillips's daughter Alice McPherson Phillips. The volume also features an introductory essay by historian Thomas J. Brown examining how the cemetery became a leading site of historical memory in the aftermath of the Civil War, and sets of maps and thematic tours that invite visitors to locate the featured graves within Magnolia's evocative grounds.