Queen of the Confederacy : the innocent deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens / by Elizabeth Wittenmyer Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Elizabeth Wittenmyer, 1919-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Governors' spouses--South Carolina--Biography.

Governors' spouses.

Women--Confederate States of America--Biography.

Women.

Pickens, Lucy Petaway Holcombe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lucy Holcombe Pickens was not content to live the life of a 19th-century Southern belle. Wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens, the governor of South Carolina on the eve of Civil war, Lucy was determined to make her mark on the world. This work offers an initmate portrait of the great lady.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1-Chapter One * Changing Times * 1830-1840

8-Chapter Two * Riches have taken to themselves wings 1840-1846

18-Chapter Three * If she wears blue stockings 1846-1849

27-Chapter Four * A stranger in a strange land * 1850

36-Chapter Five * My spirit is restless * 1851

43-Chapter Six * The only kindred blood I ever knew * 1851

49-Chapter Seven * My home is in the prairied West 1852-1857

62-Chapter Eight * The Marriage Mart of The South * 1857

73-Chapter Nine * The heart hath reason * 1858

79-Chapter Ten * Talking of elevated and mighty themes * 1858

87-Chapter Eleven * The confused sound * 1858

92-Chapter Twelve * It was very marked and not known * 1859

Illustrations

101-Chapter Thirteen * I suspect it will look more like a Muscovite

.1859-60

108-Chapter Fourteen * There is nothing real * 1860

116-Chapter Fifteen * I find myself going up the hill * 1860

126-Chapter Sixteen * I am where duty and honor demand 1861

134-Chapter Seventeen * It was grand-it was awful * 1861

141-Chapter Eighteen * Submissiveness is not my role * 1862

148-Chapter Nineteen * The only comfort in all this misery 1861-63

158-Chapter Twenty * A volcano under that exterior * 1863-65

165-Chapter Twenty-one * Out of the dead, cold ashes 1865-69

177-Chapter Twenty-two * Rouse yourself 1869-1875

184-Chapter Twenty-three * TheJoan of Arc of Carolina 1876-1893

192-Chapter Twenty-four * We do not forget! 1894-1899

199-Epilogue

203-Appendix A On Leaving Villa De Lanski

206-Appendix B Pickens Genealogy

208-Appendix C Holcombe Genealogy.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-242) and index.

ISBN:

1-57441-435-6

1-4337-1031-5

1-4175-1503-1

OCLC:

187394825