Leclercq, Anne Sinkler Whaley 1942-

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Leclercq, Anne Sinkler Whaley 1942-

PERSONAL:

Born 1942. Education: Attended Sweet Briar College, 1960-61; Duke University, B.A., 1963; University of California at Berkeley, M.A., 1965; Emory University, M.L.S., 1967; University of Tennessee, College of Law, D.Js. (with honors), 1988.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Charleston, SC. Office—The Daniel Library, The Citadel, 171 Moultrie St., Charleston, SC 29409. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Atlanta Public Library, Atlanta, GA, head, film department, 1967-70; Knoxville Library at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, head of nonprint department, 1972-77, John C. Hodges Undergraduate Library director, 1977-86, head of user education and assistant to the dean of libraries, 1986-96; Department of Interior, Knoxville, part-time law clerk to Judge David Torbett, 1988-91; Daniel Library, The Citadel, Charleston, SC, director and professor, 1996—.

MEMBER:

American Library Association, Tennessee Bar Association, South Carolina Library Association.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities; College of Liberal Arts grant funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1984; John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award, American Library Association, 1989; development grant, Harvard Institute for Higher Education Seminar for Library Directors, 2000.

WRITINGS:

An Antebellum Plantation Household: Including the South Carolina Low Country Receipts and Remedies of Emily Wharton Sinkler, University of South Carolina Press (Columbia, SC), 1996.

(Editor) Emily Wharton Sinkler, Between North and South: The Letters of Emily Wharton Sinkler, 1842-1865, University of South Carolina Press (Columbia, SC), 2001.

(Editor) Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910, University of South Carolina Press (Columbia, SC), 2006.

SIDELIGHTS:

Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq is an expert in library research studies whose interests focus in particular on the antebellum South and the life and letters of her great-great-great-grandmother, Emily Wharton Sinkler. After marrying Charles Sinker at the age of nineteen, Emily moved from Philadelphia to a cotton plantation in South Carolina. LeClerq provides a glimpse into this northern woman's experience managing a plantation in An Antebellum Plantation Household: Including the South Carolina Low Country Receipts and Remedies of Emily Wharton Sinkler and Between North and South: The Letters of Emily Wharton Sinkler, 1842-1865. Kelly Obernuefemann, writing for the Journal of Women's History, noted that the letters themselves contain few remarks pertaining to the approaching war, but that "LeClercq is able to fill in the missing years from other sources." Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910 concentrates on Sinkler's daughter, Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe, and her voyages to Egypt, Turkey, and other locales that she found to be of archaeological interest. Booklist contributor Margaret Flanagan called the book "a fascinating travelogue."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, July 1, 2006, Margaret Flanagan, review of Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910, p. 23.

Journal of Women's History, September 22, 2002, Kelly Obernuefemann, review of Between North and South: The Letters of Emily Wharton Sinkler, 1842-1865, p. 192.