Two Novels by Mary Chesnut

by Mary Boykin Chesnut

As the well-educated and socially skilled wife of a prominent Confederate, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823-86) was ideally situated--and intellectually equipped--to record the narrative of daily life in the Confederacy during the Civil War. Yet while she is widely recognized for the significant contribution of her "diaries," Mary Chesnut's other works chronicling her experiences in the Civil War South have remained--until now--unpublished and virtually...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813920582
• ISBN13: 9780813920580
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.8" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher