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Author Lewis, Elizabeth Wittenmyer, 1919-

Title Queen of the Confederacy : the innocent deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens / by Elizabeth Wittenmyer Lewis.

Publication Info. Denton : University of North Texas Press, [2002]
©2002

Item Status

Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (xvi, 253 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-242) and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1-Chapter One * Changing Times * 1830-1840 -- 8-Chapter Two * Riches have taken to themselves wings 1840-1846 -- 18-Chapter Three * If she wears blue stockings 1846-1849 -- 27-Chapter Four * A stranger in a strange land * 1850 -- 36-Chapter Five * My spirit is restless * 1851 -- 43-Chapter Six * The only kindred blood I ever knew * 1851 -- 49-Chapter Seven * My home is in the prairied West 1852-1857 -- 62-Chapter Eight * The Marriage Mart of The South * 1857 -- 73-Chapter Nine * The heart hath reason * 1858 -- 79-Chapter Ten * Talking of elevated and mighty themes * 1858 -- 87-Chapter Eleven * The confused sound * 1858 -- 92-Chapter Twelve * It was very marked and not known * 1859 -- Illustrations -- 101-Chapter Thirteen * I suspect it will look more like a Muscovite -- 1859-60 -- 108-Chapter Fourteen * There is nothing real * 1860 -- 116-Chapter Fifteen * I find myself going up the hill * 1860 -- 126-Chapter Sixteen * I am where duty and honor demand 1861 -- 134-Chapter Seventeen * It was grand-it was awful * 1861 -- 141-Chapter Eighteen * Submissiveness is not my role * 1862 -- 148-Chapter Nineteen * The only comfort in all this misery 1861-63 -- 158-Chapter Twenty * A volcano under that exterior * 1863-65 -- 165-Chapter Twenty-one * Out of the dead, cold ashes 1865-69 -- 177-Chapter Twenty-two * Rouse yourself 1869-1875 -- 184-Chapter Twenty-three * TheJoan of Arc of Carolina 1876-1893 -- 192-Chapter Twenty-four * We do not forget! 1894-1899 -- 199-Epilogue -- 203-Appendix A On Leaving Villa De Lanski -- 206-Appendix B Pickens Genealogy -- 208-Appendix C Holcombe Genealogy.
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Summary Lucy Holcombe Pickens was not content to live the life of a 19th-century Southern belle. Wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens, the governor of South Carolina on the eve of Civil war, Lucy was determined to make her mark on the world. This work offers an initmate portrait of the great lady.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Pickens, Lucy Petaway Holcombe.
Pickens, Lucy Petaway Holcombe.
Pickens, Lucy Petaway Holcombe.
Governors' spouses -- South Carolina -- Biography.
Governors' spouses.
South Carolina.
Women -- Confederate States of America -- Biography.
Women.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Lewis, Elizabeth Wittenmyer, 1919- Queen of the Confederacy. 1st ed. Denton : University of North Texas Press, ©2002 1574411462 (DLC) 2002000645 (OCoLC)48858136
ISBN 1417515031 (electronic book)
9781417515035 (electronic book)
1574411462 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9781574411461 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1433710315
9781433710315