Heath Hardage Lee

Winnie Davis

Daughter of the Lost Cause

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Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the Colonial Dames of America Book Prize   Varina Anne “Winnie” 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. Occurring only a month after the death of beloved Confederate hero general J.E.B. Stuart during a string of Confederate victories, Winnie’s birth was hailed as an omen of victory by war-weary Southerners. But after the Confederacy’s ultimate defeat, Winnie would spend her early life as a genteel refugee and expatriate abroad. After returning to the South from German boarding school, Winnie was christened the “Daughter of the Confederacy” in 1886. For Confederate veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Winnie became an icon of the Lost Cause, eclipsing even her father. Winnie Davis: Daughter of the Lost Cause is the first published biography of this little-known woman who unwittingly became the female symbol of the defeated South. Winnie’s 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 worshiped her. Faced with the pressures of a community that violently rejected the match, Winnie desperately attempted to reconcile her prominent Old South history with her personal desire for tolerance.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9781612346373
• ISBN-10: 1612346375
• Artikelnr.: 40620463

Autorenporträt

Heath Hardage Lee is an independent historian, biographer, and curator. She is the author of The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations                                       000
Foreword                                                        000
by J.E.B. Stuart IV      
Preface                                                            000
Acknowledgments                                          000
Introduction                                                    000
1. A Tragic Fall                                               000
2. My Name Is a Heritage of Woe                  000
3. Escape, Capture, and Fort Monroe             000
4. A Fatal Romance                                        000
5. Scandal and Sickness                                  000
6. Boarding School Blues and the Dorsey Dilemma  000
7. Yellow Fever                                              000
8. Portrait of a Lady                                       000
9. Daughter of the Confederacy                     000
10. Life in a Fishbowl                                     000
11. I Will Never Consent!                               000
12. Engagement Issues                                   000
13. Italian Idyll                                               000
14. Dear Diary                                                000
15. A World on Fire                                        000
16. Queen of a Mystic Court                          000
17. New York, New Woman                          000
18. The Last Casualty of the Lost Cause        000
19. Death and Maiden                                    000
Epilogue: The Great-Great-Grandson of the Confederacy and the Daughter of
New York 000
coauthored by Bertram Hayes-Davis
Notes                                                               000
Bibliography                                                   000