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Refugitta of Richmond : the Wartime Recollections, Grave and Gay, of Constance Cary Harrison.
In the expansive canon of Civil War memoirs, relatively few accounts from women exist. Among the most engaging and informative of these rare female perspectives is Constance Cary Harrison's Recollections Grave and Gay, a lively, first-person account of the collapse of the Confederacy by the wif...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Knoxville :
University of Tennessee Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the expansive canon of Civil War memoirs, relatively few accounts from women exist. Among the most engaging and informative of these rare female perspectives is Constance Cary Harrison's Recollections Grave and Gay, a lively, first-person account of the collapse of the Confederacy by the wife of President Jefferson Davis's private secretary. Although equal in literary merit to the well-known and widely available diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut and Eliza Frances Andrews, Harrison's memoir failed to remain in print after its original publication in 1916 and, as a result, has. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (273 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781572337923 1572337923 1283098601 9781283098601 |