Elizabeth W. Allston (Elizabeth Waties Allston) Pringle

Born on May 29, 1845, on Pawleys Island, South Carolina, she was the daughter of Robert F. W. Allston and Adele Petigru Allston. After the Civil War overturned the world she had grown up in, she went on to manage the Chicora Wood and White House rice plantations in Georgetown County. She married John Julius Pringle in 1870; he died in 1876.

She wrote under the pen name Patience Pennington and is remembered for A Woman Rice Planter (1913), a book drawn from diary material and earlier sketches, and for Chronicles of Chicora Wood, published after her death in 1922. Her writing is valued for its firsthand picture of Lowcountry rice culture and the upheavals that reshaped South Carolina in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

She died on December 5, 1921. Her life as both planter and author has kept her work in print and made her an important voice in the historical record of the South Carolina Lowcountry.