Elizabeth W. Allston Pringle

Elizabeth Waties Pringle ( Allston; May 29, 1845 – December 5, 1921) was an American plantation owner and writer who published under the pseudonym Patience Pennington. She owned and managed Chicora Wood and White House, both rice plantations in Georgetown County, South Carolina.

Early life and education Elizabeth Waties Allston was born on May 29, 1845, at Canaan Seashore, her family's summer home near Pawleys Island. Her father, Robert Francis Withers Allston, was a wealthy plantation owner and politician who served as the Governor of South Carolina from 1856 to 1858. Robert F. W. Allston owned seven plantations, 630 enslaved people, and over 1,400 acres of land, where rice and lumber were the primary crops. The book included an introduction by author Owen Wiser and illustrations of plantation life by painter Alice Ravenel Huger Smith. A Woman Rice Planter reportedly sold well and provided her with increased financial stability.

Personal life Elizabeth Waties Allston married John Julius Pringle, a plantation owner and neighbor of her family's, on April 26, 1870.