Eliza McHatton Ripley (1832-1912), born Elizabeth Chinn, was an American writer who wrote about her experiences on a Louisiana plantation at the onset of the American Civil War when her family fled to New Orleans, Texas, Mexico, and Cuba [1] [2] She also wrote the book Social Life in Old New Orleans. [3]
She married her first husband and became Elizabeth McHatton [4] before being widowed in 1865 and remarrying to Colonel Dwight Ripley in 1873. [5]
Some of the correspondence of her family still exists [6] [7] including the description of a rebellion of Chinese laborers on her family's plantation in protest at the inadequacy of their rations. [8]
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Eliza McHatton Ripley (1832-1912), born Elizabeth Chinn, was an American writer who wrote about her experiences on a Louisiana plantation at the onset of the American Civil War when her family fled to New Orleans, Texas, Mexico, and Cuba [1] [2] She also wrote the book Social Life in Old New Orleans. [3]
She married her first husband and became Elizabeth McHatton [4] before being widowed in 1865 and remarrying to Colonel Dwight Ripley in 1873. [5]
Some of the correspondence of her family still exists [6] [7] including the description of a rebellion of Chinese laborers on her family's plantation in protest at the inadequacy of their rations. [8]
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