Bibliograph

Women's diaries from the Civil War South, a literary-historical reading, Sharon Talley

Type

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Women's diaries from the Civil War South, a literary-historical reading, Sharon Talley

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [515]-546) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Women's diaries from the Civil War South

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1141510065

Responsibility statement

Sharon Talley

Sub title

a literary-historical reading

Summary

"Sharon Talley offers close readings and comparative analysis of sixteen women's diaries from the Civil War era that illuminate women's experiences in the Confederacy during and after the war. Talley divides her study into six sections that are organized by location, vocation, and purpose: diaries of elite planter women; diaries of women on the Texas frontier; diaries of women on the Confederate border; diaries of espionage by women in the South; diaries of women nurses near the battlefront; and diaries of women missionaries in the Port Royal Experiment. When read together, these writings illustrate that the female experience in the Civil War South was not one but many."--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Mary Boykin Chesnut -- Ida Powell Dulany -- Priscilla "Mittie" Bond -- Kate Stone -- Sallie McNeill -- Lucy Pier Stevens -- Ellen Renshaw House -- Josie Underwood -- Belle Edmondson -- Elizabeth Van Lew -- Kate Cumming -- Ada Bacot -- Esther Hill Hawks -- Charlotte Forten

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