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Queen of the Confederacy : the innocent deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens /
Lucy Holcombe Pickens was not content to live the life of a 19th-century Southern belle. Wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens, the governor of South Carolina on the eve of Civil war, Lucy was determined to make her mark on the world. This work offers an initmate portrait of the great lady.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Denton :
University of North Texas Press,
©2002.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Queen of the Confederacy; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Principal Characters; CHAPTER ONE 1830-1840 Changing Times; CHAPTER TWO 1840-1846 "Riches have taken to themselves wings and flown away."; CHAPTER THREE 1846-1849 "If she wears blue stockings she contrives to let her petticoats hide them."; CHAPTER FOUR 1850 "A stranger in a strange land."; CHAPTER FIVE 1851 "My spirit is restless and longs for activity."; CHAPTER SIX 1851 "The only kindred blood I ever knew, stains the green shore of Cuba."
- CHAPTER SEVEN 1852-1857 "My home is in the prairied West and God is nearer us than fashion."CHAPTER EIGHT 1857 The Marriage Mart of the South; CHAPTER NINE 1858 "The heart hath reason which reason knows nothing of."; CHAPTER TEN 1858 "talking of elevated and mighty themes . . ."; CHAPTER ELEVEN 1858 "The confused sound of an unknown language ... made me feel my isolation."; CHAPTER TWELVE 1858 "It was very marked and not known to happen before to a foreigner."; photo gallery; CHAPTER THIRTEEN 1859-1860 "I suspect it will look more like a Moscovite Don Cossack than an honest American child."
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN 1860 "There is nothing real about European society but its hollowness."CHAPTER FIFTEEN 1860 "I find myself going up the hill to Wyalusing."; CHAPTER SIXTEEN 1861 "I am where duty & honor demand me."; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN 1861 "It was grand-it was awful."; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 1861 "Submissiveness is not my role ... "; CHAPTER NINETEEN 1861-1863 "The only comfort in all this misery is a little good talk now and then."; CHAPTER TWENTY 1863-1865 "A volcano under that exterior of stillness and glitter."; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE 1865-1869 "Out of the dead, cold ashes, life again."
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO 1869-1875 "Rouse yourself from the sweet sad dream and face the battle of life."CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE 1876-1893 "The Joan of Arc of Carolina"; CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR 1894-1899 "We do not forget!"; Epilogue; Appendix A ON LEAVING VILLA DE LANSKOI; Appendix B PICKENS GENEALOGY; Appendix C HOLCOMBE GENEALOGY; Notes; Bibliography; Index.