Varina Howell Wife Of Jefferson Davis
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Author |
: Joan E. Cashin |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 2009-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674029262 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674029267 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis First Lady of the Confederacy by : Joan E. Cashin
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.
Author |
: Eron Rowland |
Publisher |
: Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 544 |
Release |
: 1927 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015059744840 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Varina Howell, Wife of Jefferson Davis by : Eron Rowland
The first volume of this Biography has received flattering reviews from critics on the staff of the Nation, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Boston Transcript and the London Times. Both Gamaliel Bradford and William E. Dodd have been warm in their commendation of the second volume. In this volume Mrs. Rowland had written a charming and accurate historical narrative of the Southern Confederacy in which the wife of Jefferson Davis played a part that holds and fascinates the reader. The narrative written in an easy, graceful yet frank and forceful style, places the work among the year's important contributions to American biography.
Author |
: Eron Rowland |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 616 |
Release |
: 1931 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:32000009122484 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Varina Howell, Wife of Jefferson Davis by : Eron Rowland
Biography of Varina Anne Banks (Howell) Davis (1826-1906), wife of Jefferson Davis who served as President of the Confederates States of America.
Author |
: Charles Frazier |
Publisher |
: Ecco |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0062856154 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780062856159 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Varina by : Charles Frazier
"Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history"--
Author |
: Carol Berkin |
Publisher |
: Knopf |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400044467 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400044464 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Civil War Wives by : Carol Berkin
Traces the vivid lives of the wives of Theodore Weld, Jefferson Davis, and Ulysses S. Grant to demonstrate how their personal beliefs were overshadowed by their high-profile husbands before wartime brought them to the foreground.
Author |
: Eron Rowland |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 528 |
Release |
: 2013-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1258968479 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781258968472 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Varina Howell by : Eron Rowland
This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.
Author |
: Heath Hardage Lee |
Publisher |
: Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 247 |
Release |
: 2014-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781612346373 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1612346375 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Winnie Davis by : Heath Hardage Lee
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 victories, WinnieÆs birth was hailed as a blessing by war-weary Southerners. They felt her arrival was a good omen signifying future victory. But after the ConfederacyÆs ultimate defeat in the Civil War, Winnie would spend her early life as a genteel refugee and a European expatriate abroad. After returning to the South from German boarding school, Winnie was christened the ôDaughter of the Confederacyö in 1886. This role was bestowed upon her by a Southern culture trying to sublimate its war losses. Particularly idolized by Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Winnie became an icon of the Lost Cause, eclipsing even her father Jefferson in popularity. Winnie Davis: Daughter of the Lost Cause is the first published biography of this little-known woman who unwittingly became the symbolic female figure of the defeated South. Her controversial engagement in 1890 to a Northerner lawyer whose grandfather was a famous abolitionist, and her later move to work as a writer in New York City, shocked her friends, family, and the Southern groups who worshipped her. Faced with the pressures of a community who violently rejected the match, Winnie desperately attempted to reconcile her prominent Old South history with her personal desire for tolerance and acceptance of her personal choices.
Author |
: Eron Rowland |
Publisher |
: Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 612 |
Release |
: 2000-01-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1455613541 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781455613540 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Varina Howell, Volume 1 by : Eron Rowland
"Varina Davis is a lady in any event," Southern women of the aristocratic circles of Washington told the war correspondent of the London Times who had been sent to the National Capital to report all the news he could gather concerning the secession of the Southern States from the great American Union. There was a finality in their tones and manner as if the fact settled the whole question and right of secession. And being such perfect ladies themselves, who could be a better judge of what it took to be one. . . . They further informed him that Varina was popular and had friends and social influence in Washington, adding with pursed lips that she belonged to the set they called �nice people�; not like �such people� as he had seen in the White House. Thus Mrs. Jefferson Davis was described to one who, with piqued curiosity, was soon to meet her as the First Lady of the Southern Confederacy. . . . But Varina Howell Davis came proudly to her high station. She was not without a due understanding of its significance, nor was she without the feeling that she, in some degree, deserved the distinction." --from Chapter I In this volume, Mrs. Rowland has written a charming and accurate historical narrative of the Southern Confederacy in which the wife of Jefferson Davis plays a part that holds and fascinates the reader. The narrative, written in an easy, yet frank and forceful style, denotes the work as an important contribution to American biography.
Author |
: Frank Edgar Everett, Jr. |
Publisher |
: Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 2009-08-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1604733756 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781604733754 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Brierfield by : Frank Edgar Everett, Jr.
The intriguing history of the home (and the family) from which Jefferson Davis was called to become the President of the Confederate States of America
Author |
: Gerry Van der Heuvel |
Publisher |
: Dutton Adult |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015043523888 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis Crowns of Thorns and Glory by : Gerry Van der Heuvel
Examines the lives and achievements of the two first ladies of the Civil War.