Winnie Davis : Daughter of the Lost Cause /
Varina Anne ôWinnieö Davis was born into a war-torn South in June of 1864, the youngest daughter of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his second wife, Varina Howell Davis. Born only a month after the death of beloved Confederate hero General J.E.B. Stuart during a string of Confederate vic...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln, NE :
Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press,
2014.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A tragic fall
- My name is a heritage of woe
- Escape, capture, and Fort Monroe
- A fatal romance
- Scandal and sickness
- Boarding school blues and the Dorsey dilemma
- Yellow fever
- Portrait of a lady
- Daughter of the Confederacy
- Life in a fishbowl
- I will never consent!
- Engagement issues
- Italian idyll
- Dear diary
- A world on fire
- Queen of a mystic court
- New York, new woman
- The last casualty of the lost cause
- Death and maiden
- Epilogue: the great-great-grandson of the Confederacy and the daughter of New York.