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1 online resource |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
A tragic fall -- My name is a heritage of woe -- Escape, capture, and Fort Monroe -- A fatal romance -- Scandal and sickness -- Boarding school blues and the Dorsey dilemma -- Yellow fever -- Portrait of a lady -- Daughter of the Confederacy -- Life in a fishbowl -- I will never consent! -- Engagement issues -- Italian idyll -- Dear diary -- A world on fire -- Queen of a mystic court -- New York, new woman -- The last casualty of the lost cause -- Death and maiden -- Epilogue: the great-great-grandson of the Confederacy and the daughter of New York. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Summary |
Varina Anne ôWinnieö Davis was born into a war-torn South in June of 1864, the youngest daughter of Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his second wife, Varina Howell Davis. Born only a month after the death of beloved Confederate hero General J.E.B. Stuart during a string of Confederate victories, WinnieÆs birth was hailed as a blessing by war-weary Southerners. They felt her arrival was a good omen signifying future victory. But after the ConfederacyÆs ultimate defeat in the Civil War, Winnie would spend her early life as a genteel refugee and a European expatriate abroad. After return. |
Subject |
Davis, Varina Anne, 1864-1898.
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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 -- Family.
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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889. (OCoLC)fst00047383
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Davis, Varina Anne, 1864-1898. (OCoLC)fst00303187
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Children of presidents -- Confederate States of America -- Biography.
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Confederate States of America -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
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Children of presidents. (OCoLC)fst00855493
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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United States -- Confederate States of America.
(OCoLC)fst01205435
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Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Other Form: |
Print version: Lee, Heath Hardage. Winnie Davis 9781612346373 (DLC) 2014001161 (OCoLC)864848040 |
ISBN |
9781612346380 (electronic bk.) |
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1612346383 (electronic bk.) |
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