Mary Chesnut (1823–1886)
Autore di Mary Chesnut's Civil War
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Fonte dell'immagine: Fromm Wikipedia
Opere di Mary Chesnut
Mary Chestnut's Civil War Vol 1 2 copie
Opere correlate
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume 1 (1990) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 255 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Chesnut, Mary Boykin
- Altri nomi
- Miller, Mary Boykin
- Data di nascita
- 1823-03-31
- Data di morte
- 1886-11-22
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Knights Hill Cemetery, Camden, South Carolina, USA
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Stateburg, South Carolina, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Camden, South Carolina, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Washington, D.C., USA - Istruzione
- Mme. Talvande's French School for Young Ladies
- Attività lavorative
- diarist
novelist
society hostess - Relazioni
- Hood, John Bell (friend)
Davis, Varina (friend)
Pryor, Sara Agnes (friend)
King, Susan Petigru (classmate) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Mulberry Plantation was designated a National Historic Landmark
- Breve biografia
- Mary Boykin Miller came from a prominent South Carolina plantation family. Her father, Stephen Decatur Miller, had served in the U.S. House of Representatives and would later be elected Governor and then Senator. Mary attended a French boarding school in Charleston. As a young teenager, she had began a courtship with James Chesnut, Jr., a lawyer eight years her senior. The couple married in 1840 and went to live at Mulberry, the Chesnut family plantation. In 1858, Mary's husband was elected to the U.S. Senate and she became a society hostess in Washington, D.C. James Chestnut resigned his Senate seat in the months before the Civil War broke out and became an aide to Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy. Mary began keeping a diary in 1861. She was well aware that she was living through momentous events, and faithfully recorded political and military news as well as conversations with people she met and her personal impressions of them. She also carefully edited and re-wrote parts of the diary before her death in 1886. The first published edition appeared in 1905 as A Diary from Dixie, with a fuller version released in 1949. A new, fully annotated edition, edited by C. Vann Woodward, won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for history. Mary Chestnut's diary is now one of the most frequently cited memoirs of the Civil War.
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The other problem is that this book is said to be heavily edited so as not to contain anything that would be unflattering to the Confederates, which is entirely ridiculous to me. It most likely would have been much more interesting if it contained everything, but it really just talks about inflation, traveling from one city to another, and the parties the higher up Confederates threw for each other.
Overall, I could see using snippets of this to supplement a civil war lesson in a class, but it’s not worth reading the diary in its entirety.
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