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.

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