“C” is for Cleveland, Georgia Alden (1851-1914)

“C” is for Cleveland, Georgia Alden (1851-1914). Writer, activist. A native of Georgia, Cleveland married and settled in Spartanburg where she was noted for her generosity, charity, and humanity. She and her husband played leading roles in the founding of Converse College in 1889. Cleveland kept a detailed diary from 1890 to 1914 in which she chronicled life as an upper class, married, southern White female.  Because of the richness of her entries, she left a legacy of South Carolina upcountry history that is useful on several levels: not only does it document local, state, and regional history, but it also serves as a valuable record of Victorian female domesticity, and a rare peek into a snippet of southern feminine life. Georgia Alden Cleveland's diary recorded a myriad of social, political, cultural, educational, and religious activities that filled her life.