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Two Novels by Mary Chesnut
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Two Novels by Mary Chesnut. Edited by Elisabeth Muhlenfeld. With an introduction by Elizabeth Hanson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2002.
Two Novels by Mary Chesnut introduces previously unpublished works of fiction found among the papers of Mary Chesnut, author of Mary Chesnut's Civil War, the narrative journal that is one of the most important texts to come out of the Civil War. The edition is an example of scholarship at its finest and most careful, especially considering the state of the texts. The manuscript of The Captain and the Colonel, a novel that depicts the world ...
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; ...War icon is not easy. Everyone knows Mary Chesnut's journal from an earlier version, Diary...Dixie, or the splendid 1981 edition, Mary Chesnut's Civil War. It is so often quoted and...by birth, education, and marriage, Mary Chesnut (1823-1886) was shaped by her domineering...
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; ...is just as well Harriet Beecher Stowe knew nothing about Mary Chesnut. The child of fervently puritanical parents and driven by...man she married were opposed to slavery. In every regard, Mary Chesnut, as she became, was a remarkable woman. On the one hand a...
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; Correction: Because of a reporting error, a Page One story yesterday about Harvard's new president, Drew Gilpin Faust, misspelled the surname of Civil War diarist Mary Chesnut.
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(book reviews)
; ...presented the achievements of these explorers. Diary from Dixie, Mary Chesnut's recreation of her Civil War diaries, was prominent for...edition of the original diaries under the title The Private Mary Chesnut. In the process of bringing out a number of important works...
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Local 'Penzance' production adds Hawaiian flair
; ...challenges of the diction, and with the help of Beebe Freitas and Mary Chesnut Hicks, the chorus groups -- pirates, police and maidens...L. Maiava (Isabel) and Georgine Stark (Kate) and soprano Mary Chesnut Hicks (Edith), enlivened the performance. The police...
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Musical teamwork
; face=+2; Mary Chesnut and husband Kalani Hicks will share...people work one or more day jobs, Mary Chesnut and her husband, Kalani Hicks, have...poster says 'Man of La Mancha' and 'Mary Chesnut.' There's been a lot of ridicule...
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The Leverett Letters: Correspondence of a South Carolina Family, 1851-1868. (Book Reviews).(Review)
; ...Family critiques of Confederate personnel echo those in Mary Chesnut's famous Civil War diaries. Oh that I could lift up my voice...war began, Mary Maxcy Leverett wrote in 1862 (p. 129). Like Mary Chesnut, the Leveretts were eager for the promotion of their loved...
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(book review)
; ...underthings rifled through by an especially coarse soldier. Unlike Mary Chesnut, whose rich and opinionated chronicle of the Civil War is...one loved her as she wished. Readers looking for another Mary Chesnut might be disappointed by these rather plain accounts, but...
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Wartime memoirs by women in vogue.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
; ...After more than a half century of obscurity, the diary of Mary Chesnut - full of sharp commentary and sharp observations - has become...Similarly, greater interest in women's history has brought Mary Chesnut to the forefront. A high-society Southern matron and an opponent...
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The Leverett Letters: Correspondence of a South Carolina Family, 1851-1868
; ...Family critiques of Confederate personnel echo those in Mary Chesnut's famous Civil War diaries. "Oh that I could lift up my voice...began," Mary Maxcy Leverett wrote in 1862 (p. 129). Like Mary Chesnut, the Leveretts were eager for the promotion of their loved...
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