Title: Varina
Description: Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history--culpable regardless of her intentions.
Subjects: Fiction, Man-woman relationships, History, Fiction, biographical, Fiction, historical, general, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction
Places: United States
People: Varina Davis (1826-1906), Jefferson Davis (1808-1889)
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865