Genteel rebel
Subtitle: the life of Mary Greenhow Lee
By: Sheila R. Phipps.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Lee, Mary Greenhow, b. 1819.; Women -- Virginia -- Winchester -- Biography.; Winchester (Va.) -- Biography.; Winchester (Va.) -- History -- 19th century.; Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "This biography depicts the combined effect of social structure, character, and national crisis on a woman's life. Mary Greenhow Lee (1819-1907) was raised in a privileged Virginia household. As a young woman, she flirted with President Van Buren's son, drank tea with Dolley Madison, and frolicked in bedsheets through the streets of Washington with her sister-in-law, future Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow. Later in life, Lee debated with senators, fed foreign emissaries and correspondents, scolded generals, and nursed soldiers.

As a Confederate sympathizer in the hotly contested small border town of Winchester, Virginia, she ran an underground postal service, hid contraband under her nieces' dresses, abetted the Rebel cause, and was finally banished."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-243) and index.
Table of contents: title: My birthday, I have spent it profitably; title: A most accurate remembrance of my wild kicks : the early development of a rebel; title: In the palm days of old Winchester : the environment of Mary Greenhow Lee's transformation to responsibility; title: Secesh lives here : 132 North Market Street; title: Village on the frontier : Winchester, Virginia; title: We share & bear : wartime domestic politics in the Lee household; title: Nothing to interfere with my soldier work : Mary Greenhow Lee's warfare disguised as housekeeping; title: This is surely the day of woman's power : Mary Greenhow Lee's gender warfare; title: I feel quite independent now.