Queen of the Confederacy: The Innocent Deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens - Softcover

Lewis, Elizabeth Wittenmyer

 
9781574413007: Queen of the Confederacy: The Innocent Deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1574413007 ISBN 13: 9781574413007
Verlag: University of North Texas Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

“Submissiveness is not my role, but certain platitudes on certain occasions are among the innocent deceits of the sex.”
 
A strong character with a fervent belief in woman's changing place, Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1832-1899) was not content to live the life of a typical nineteenth-century Southern belle. Wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens, the secessionist governor of South Carolina on the eve of the Civil War, Lucy was determined to make her mark in the world. She married “the right man,” feeling that “a woman with wealth or prestige garnered from her husband's position could attain great power.”
 
Lucy urged Pickens to accept a diplomatic mission to the court of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, and in St. Petersburg Lucy captivated the Tsar and his retinue with her beauty and charm. Upon returning to the states, she became First Lady of South Carolina just in time to encourage a Confederate unit named in her honor (The Holcombe Legion) off to war.

The only woman to have her image engraved on Confederacy paper currency. Heralded as the uncrowned “Queen of the Confederacy”.

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ELIZABETH WITTENMYER LEWIS, born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, attended Susquehanna University and Pennsylvania State College. She graduated from Jefferson Medical School with an RN and served as first lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps in World War II. She married a Southerner and spent most of her life in Virginia, Florida, Missouri, and Texas, with the exception of six years in London. She continued her education at Rice University in Houston.

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Verlag
University of North Texas Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1574413007
ISBN 13 
9781574413007
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Anzahl der Seiten
288
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