Mary Boykin Chesnut
Subtitle: a biography
By: Elisabeth Muhlenfeld.
Series: Southern biography series
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller, 1823-1886.; South Carolina -- Biography.
Description: Chesnut is today known chiefly for her firsthand account of life in the Confederate States of America, and her drawing room was a social center for many of the most prominent political and military figures in the Confederacy. Muhlenfeld traces her life in South Carolina as the daughter of a governor and United States senator, through her marriage to a wealthy South Carolina planter, and into the later years of her life, when Chesnut did her most serious writing and her major works.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [253]-261.
Includes index.