Genteel Rebel: The Life of Mary Greenhow LeeLSU Press, 13 հոկ, 2003 թ. - 259 էջ This elegantly written biography depicts the combined effect of social structure, character, and national crisis on a woman’s life. Mary Greenhow Lee (1819–1907) was raised in a privileged Virginia household. As a young woman, she flirted with President Van Buren’s son, drank tea with Dolley Madison, and frolicked in bedsheets through the streets of Washington with her sister-in-law, future Confederate spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow. Later in life, Lee debated with senators, fed foreign emissaries and correspondents, scolded generals, and nursed soldiers. As a Confederate sympathizer in the hotly contested small border town of Winchester, Virginia, she ran an underground postal service, hid contraband under her nieces’ dresses, abetted the Rebel cause, and was finally banished. |
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My BirthdayI Have Spent It Profitably | 12 |
A Most Accurate Remembrance of My Wild Kicks The Early Development of a Rebel | 32 |
In the Palm Days of Old Winchester The Environment of Mary Greenhow Lees Transformation to Responsibility | 54 |
Secesh Lives Here 132 North Market Street | 85 |
Village on the Frontier Winchester Virginia | 111 |
We Share Bear Wartime Domestic Politics in the Lee Household | 136 |
Nothing to Interfere with My Soldier Work Mary Greenhow Lees Warfare Disguised as Housekeeping | 156 |
This Is Surely the Day of Woman V Power Mary Greenhow Lees Gender Warfare | 175 |
I Feel Quite Independent Now | 199 |
Bibliography | 223 |
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