Author: Frank LesliePublisher:
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly
Author: Frank LesliePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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American Illustrated Magazine
Author: The Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
Author: John Albert SleicherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
The American Garden
Author: The Annual American Catalogue 1886-1900
Author: The Annual American Catalogue
Author: First Lady of the Confederacy
Author: Joan E. CashinPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674029267
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. For this highly intelligent, acutely observant woman, loyalty did not come easily: she spent long years struggling to reconcile her societal duties to her personal beliefs. Raised in Mississippi but educated in Philadelphia, and a long-time resident of Washington, D.C., Mrs. Davis never felt at ease in Richmond. During the war she nursed Union prisoners and secretly corresponded with friends in the North. Though she publicly supported the South, her term as First Lady was plagued by rumors of her disaffection. After the war, Varina Davis endured financial woes and the loss of several children, but following her husband's death in 1889, she moved to New York and began a career in journalism. Here she advocated reconciliation between the North and South and became friends with Julia Grant, the widow of Ulysses S. Grant. She shocked many by declaring in a newspaper that it was God's will that the North won the war. A century after Varina Davis's death in 1906, Joan E. Cashin has written a masterly work, the first definitive biography of this truly modern, but deeply conflicted, woman. Pro-slavery but also pro-Union, Varina Davis was inhibited by her role as Confederate First Lady and unable to reveal her true convictions. In this pathbreaking book, Cashin offers a splendid portrait of a fascinating woman who struggled with the constraints of her time and place.
Publishers' Weekly
Author: Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1762
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Bulletin ...
Author: Manchester City Library (Manchester, N.H.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description