First Lady Of The South The Life Of Mrs Jefferson Davis

Author : Ishbel Ross
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Lady of the South written by Ishbel Ross and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1973 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of Varina Davis tells of the "early days of her marriage to Jefferson Davis, the controversial figure who would become president of the Confederacy. The story shifts from Washington to Richmond, the years of war, follows their journeying to and fro, in the weeks and months of escape. And then exile --after Jefferson Davis' release from prison."

Author : Joan E. Cashin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674030370
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Lady of the Confederacy written by Joan E. Cashin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century after Varina Davis's death in 1906, Joan E. Cashin has written a masterly biography of this truly modern, but deeply conflicted, woman. Pro-slavery but also pro-Union, Davis was a fascinating woman who struggled with the constraints of her time and place. 29 halftone photos.

Author : Eron Rowland
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Varina Howell, Wife of Jefferson Davis written by Eron Rowland and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1927 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ishbel Ross
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786258536
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Lady Of The South: The Life Of Mrs. Jefferson Davis written by Ishbel Ross and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant and engaging biography of Varina Davis tells of the early days of her marriage to Jefferson Davis, the controversial figure who would become president of the Confederacy. The story gives a detailed account of their life in Washington and Richmond, the years of war, and follows their journey during the weeks and months of escape and then—following Jefferson Davis’ release from prison—exile. “EVERY move the made was noticed and commented on. She was accused of being friendly to the North, of harboring spies in her home, of feasting when others starred, of pretentious ways, of nepotism, of not reading the books which she quoted so freely, of extravagant entertaining in hours of crisis, and of meddling in politics and military affairs. Some of the stories were true; many were not, but it is self-evident that she instinctively generated heat lightning around her.”—First Lady of the South. Includes numerous illustrations.

Author : Eron Rowland
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781565545700
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Varina Howell written by Eron Rowland and published by Pelican Publishing Company. This book was released on 1931-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Eron Rowland
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455613540
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Varina Howell, Volume 1 written by Eron Rowland and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2000-01-31 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Carol Berkin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400095786
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Civil War Wives written by Carol Berkin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these moving stories if Angelina Grimké Weld, wife of abolitionist Theodore Weld, Varina Howell Davis, wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and Julia Dent grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, Carol Berkin reveals how women understood the cataclysmic events of their day. Their stories, taken together, help reconstruct the era of the Civil War with a greater depth and complexity by adding women's experiences and voices to their male counterparts.

Author : Heath Hardage Lee
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612346375
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Winnie Davis written by Heath Hardage Lee and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Richard J. Lanzara
Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781424124640
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defining Moments in the Lives of Mary Todd Lincoln And Varina Howell Davis written by Richard J. Lanzara and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Todd Lincoln, the most criticized and misunderstood first lady, experienced more than her share of tragedy during her lifetime. During the Civil War, both North and South called her a traitor and seldom did the press have a kind word for her. If we examine her early life, the most impressionable years, we become enlightened and can find compassion for the woman who was the wife of the sixteenth President of the United States. Gentle, soft-spoken Varina Howell Davis was admired by all who met her. She was well-educated, just like her northern counterpart. But unlike Mary Todd Lincoln, Varina didnt leave a trail of frustrating encounters wherever she traveled. Throughout the many calamities in her life, the one thing Varina could count on was the love she shared with her husband, Confederate president Jefferson Davis.

Author : Charles Frazier
Publisher : Ecco
ISBN 13 : 9780062856166
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Varina written by Charles Frazier and published by Ecco. This book was released on 2018 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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"--