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Elisabeth Muhlenfeld (Author)

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Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr (June 1981)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0807108529
ISBN-13: 978-0807108529
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds

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5.0 out of 5 stars The definitive biography on Chesnut, November 19, 1998

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This is the best biography of Chesnut to date. Muhlenfeld draws from all of Chesnut's writing, not just her famous Civil War diaries, to build a picture of a woman and a writer.

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LATE IN THE EVENING of May 18, 1861, Mary Boykin Chesnut was in a hotel room in Montgomery, Alabama. Read the first page

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revised journal, war journal, original journal

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Mary Boykin Chesnut, South Carolina, Mary Chesnut, James Chesnut, Varina Davis, Madame Talvande, Mary Williams, Isabella Martin, Mary Miller, New York, Jefferson Davis, Mary Cox Chesnut, Diary From Dixie, Stephen Decatur Miller, Mary Preston, Mary Withers, John Manning, Miller Williams, Miss Martin, Colonel Chesnut, David Williams, Fort Sumter, Maggie Howell, Flat Rock, John Chesnut

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This book cites 63 books:

A Diary From Dixie by Mary Boykin Chesnut on 15 pages
Patriotic Gore (Galaxy Books) by Edmund Wilson on page 9, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
South Carolina Women Writers by J. Meriwether in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
Confederate Women (Contributions in American History) by Bell Irvin Wiley in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
Jefferson Davis by Patricia Miles Martin on page 135, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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Altered Egos: Authority in American Autobiography by G. Thomas Couser in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Two Novels: The Captain and the Colonel / Two Years, or, The Way We Lived Then (The Publications of the Southern Texts Society) by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier by Joan E. Cashin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South by Catherine Clinton in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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