Civil War Wives

The Lives And Times Of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis, And Julia Dent Grant

BY CAROL BERKIN

Brief Description:
Quaker Angelina Grimke renounced the slaveholding of her family and embraced the antislavery movement, but found her voice silenced by marriage to fellow reformer Theodore Weld. Varina Howell incurred the disapproval of her husband, Jefferson Davis, when she would not be an obedient wife. Though ill-prepared for her role as First Lady of the Confederacy, she became a political lobbyist for her husband's release from prison. Julia Dent, the wife of Ulysses S. Grant seemed content with the restrictions of marriage and motherhood. Only late in life did she glimpse the price of dependency.

Knopf 2010 345 PP. Cloth

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