{"id":10357,"date":"2016-06-20T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lichen.csd.sc.edu\/sce\/entries\/ravenel-harriott-horry-rutledge\/"},"modified":"2022-08-23T12:47:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T12:47:38","slug":"ravenel-harriott-horry-rutledge","status":"publish","type":"entry","link":"https:\/\/www.scencyclopedia.org\/sce\/entries\/ravenel-harriott-horry-rutledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravenel, Harriott Horry Rutledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novelist, biographer, historian. Ravenel was born on August 12, 1832, in Charleston, the daughter of Edward Cotesworth Rutledge and Rebecca Motte Lowndes. In her youth, she received private tutoring at her home in Charleston and attended Madame Talvande\u2019s prestigious female academy. On March 20, 1851, she married a prominent physician, St. Julien Ravenel, with whom she would have nine children. During the Civil War her husband oversaw a Confederate hospital and medical laboratory, and she accompanied him to Columbia. While her husband was away on Confederate business, Ravenel resisted Sherman\u2019s soldiers and protected her home from fire, prompting Mary Chesnut to write in her diary, \u201cMrs. St. Julien . . . actually awed the Yankees into civil behavior.\u201d Ravenel\u2019s brief memoir, \u201cWhen Columbia Burned,\u201d was presented as a speech to the Daughters of the Confederacy and appeared several years later in <em>South Carolina Women in the Confederacy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Though she wrote poetry, brief essays, and stories on other subjects, Ravenel\u2019s major works focused on southern history and manners. Her most successful piece of fiction, <em>Ashurst; or \u201cThe Days That Are Not,\u201d <\/em>fondly depicted antebellum lifestyles and landscapes. The novelette was featured as the prize story in the Charleston <em>Weekly News <\/em>under the pen name Mrs. H. Hilton Broom before being published in book form in 1879. Ravenel\u2019s other major works were born of her interest in preserving state and family history. A descendant of the statesmen John Rutledge and William Lowndes and a relative of the famed Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Ravenel drew on her \u201cintimate knowledge of family history and traditions\u201d as well as letters, journals, and archives to shape her writings.<\/p>\n<p>In 1896, as part of a national series entitled \u201cWomen of Colonial and Revolutionary Times,\u201d Ravenel published a brief biography, <em>Eliza Pinckney, <\/em>to preserve the achievements of her great-great-grandmother. Five years later she published <em>Life and Times of William Lowndes of South Carolina, 1782\u20131822 <\/em>as a tribute to her maternal grandfather, who served in Congress with John Calhoun and Langdon Cheves. Her final work, <em>Charleston: The Place and the People, <\/em>appeared in 1906, tracing the history of her native city from its lively colonial past to the Civil War era. While Ravenel\u2019s works received many favorable contemporary reviews, her books were also noted for reflecting a \u201csympathetic interest\u201d and \u201cuncritical\u201d perspective. Ravenel observed the difficulty of writing history that held such deeply personal meaning for the author. In her recollection of Columbia\u2019s burning, she humbly offered her vantage point as one of many that sought to contribute \u201ca real and correct picture in true and perfect proportions.\u201d Characterized as \u201ca great lady of the Old South,\u201d Ravenel worked devotedly on her last publication even while in feeble health. She died in Charleston on July 2, 1912, and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Ravenel, Harriott Horry. <em>Ashurst; or, \u201cThe Days That Are Not\u201d: The Prize Story from the Charleston Weekly News. <\/em>Charleston, S.C.: News and Courier Book Presses, 1879.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u2013\u2013. <em>Charleston: The Place and the People. <\/em>New York: Macmillan, 1906.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u2013\u2013. Papers. South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013\u2013\u2013. \u201cWhen Columbia Burned.\u201d In <em>South Carolina Women in the Confederacy, <\/em>edited by Mrs. Thomas Taylor. Vol. 1. Columbia, S.C.: State Company, 1903.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novelist, biographer, historian. Ravenel was born on August 12, 1832, in Charleston, the daughter of Edward Cotesworth Rutledge and Rebecca Motte Lowndes. In her youth, she received private tutoring at her home in Charleston and attended Madame Talvande\u2019s prestigious female academy. 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