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6 de abr. de 2018 · Mistress of Riversdale : the plantation letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert, 1795-1821 by Calvert, Rosalie Stier, -1821; Callcott, Margaret Law. Publication date
Their youngest daughter, Rosalie, stayed behind, having married George Calvert during her family's stay, pregnant, and responsible for running a mansion in Maryland, Riversdale. What was for Rosalie and her family a wrenching separation has given us through the letters Rosalie wrote to her family an extraordinary history of American life after the Revolution.
1 de fev. de 1992 · Rosalie Stier Calvert gives us a first hand account of the life of a wealthy emigrant to the newly established United States. She gives a detailed account of her day to day life as the wife and mother on a plantation as well as important history happening in her backyard.
- Margaret Law Callcott
Riversdale was the plantation of the Belgian émigré Rosalie Stier Calvert (1778–1821) and her husband, George Calvert (1768–1838), a planter and direct descendent of the Proprietary Governors of Maryland. Though estates were usually owned by men in the early Republic, Riversdale is one of the few that passed from father to daughter. [1]
30 de nov. de 2022 · George and Rosalie Calvert were married on June 11, 1799. His wife was an indefatigable correspondent and a collection of her letters, titled Mistress of Riversdale, The Plantation Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert, was published by the Johns Hopkins University Press in 1991, edited by Margaret Law Callcott.
Four years later, Stier returned to Belgium, leaving the unfinished Riversdale to be completed by his daughter, Rosalie Stier Calvert and her husband George. The number of slaves employed at Riversdale varied from around fifteen in 1800 to thirty-two, as reported in the 1806 tax assessment.
