Blood and Irony
Subtitle: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: July 5, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780807857670
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Women's Studies - History; History: American; History; History - U.S.; English; USA; American - General; United States - Civil War; Literary Criticism & Collections / Women Authors; United Daughters of the Confederacy; Ellen Glasgow; Mary Johnston; Katherine Anne Porter; Margaret Mitchell; Mary Ann Cruse; Mary Noailles Murphy; Varina Davis; Helen Dortch Longstreet; LaSalle Corbell Pickett; Women Authors
First sentence: In February 1861, Emma E. Holmes of Charleston, South Carolina, contemplated the future of her country and became incensed.