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South Atlantic Quarterly (1982) 81 (4): 469–470.
Published: 01 October 1982
...Anne Firor Scott Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Biography . By Muhlenfeld Elizabeth . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1981 . Pp. 223 ; notes, sources, index. $20.00 . Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 Book Reviews 469 that you were certain he was capable...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1950) 49 (4): 541–542.
Published: 01 October 1950
...Robert H. Woody A Diary from Dixie . By Chesnut Mary Boykin . Edited by Williams Ben Ames . Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1949 . Pp. xii , 572 . $5.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Book Reviews 54i whole Dr. Smith has produced in a pleasant...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1950) 49 (4): 542–543.
Published: 01 October 1950
... that the real reason the Con­ federate Capital was moved from Montgomery, in Mrs. Chesnut s opinion, was the intolerable heat, hotels, and food of the Alabama metropolis. We are treated to bits of scandal and gossip, and Mrs. Chesnut s comment that in a village community everybody knows exactly where to put...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1950) 49 (4): 539–541.
Published: 01 October 1950
... Dixie. By Mary Boykin Chesnut. Edited by Ben Ames Williams. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. Pp. xii, 572. $5.00. Judged by any standard, Mrs. Chesnut s diary is one of the most remarkable of the many to come out of the Civil War. At the beginning of the conflict Mrs. Chesnut resolved to keep...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1982) 81 (4): 470–471.
Published: 01 October 1982
... published under the title Mrs. Chesnut s Civil War. The irony of this life story is that, but for the war which robbed her of all she once thought essential to the good life, Mary Boykin Chesnut might have lived and died, like so many of her contemporaries among southern women, leaving little trace upon...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1911) 10 (2): 103–118.
Published: 01 April 1911
... and others, as they looked back, does not seem to have forced contemporaries to report it. In the war period Mrs. Chesnut, an admirer, but a shrewd, keen woman, gives us a glimpse which is well worth not­ ing: ^All the same I like Smith Lee better, and I like his looks too. I know Smith Lee well. Can...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1978) 77 (2): 146–158.
Published: 01 April 1978
.... Southern Yeomen and the Confederacy 149 about the change. Doubts and potential class divisions remained. Even in South Carolina in May, 1861, when enthusiasm ran high, former Senator James Chesnut, Jr., worried because small farmers were saying that this was a rich man s war. Opposition quickly de­ veloped...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1975) 74 (1): 86–103.
Published: 01 January 1975
... publicly defended slavery wished that it did not exist. God knows I am not inclined to condone it, was Mary Boykin Chesnut s reaction in the privacy of her diary. Trescot prefaced his remarks quoted above by noting that what had been an experiment to Colonial South Carolinians had be­ come the corner...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1959) 58 (3): 486–487.
Published: 01 July 1959
... second husband was David Clopton, was a Southern belle, perhaps equaled only by Mary Boykin Chesnut, Varina Davis, and Octavia Walton LeVert. Her chief interests lay in having a good time and promoting the reputa­ tion of herself and the members of her family. The two Clay men were Jeffersonians who...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1973) 72 (1): 162–163.
Published: 01 January 1973
..., for in addition to the letters, there is surely as much information here about this particular family of Joneses and their kin and acquaintances as anyone could want. The end result is, unfortunately, heavy in more than one sense of the word. Unlike the sharp-tongued and inimitable Mary Boykin Chesnut...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1987) 86 (2): 200–201.
Published: 01 April 1987
.... For the general reader espe- Book Reviews 201 cially, this makes the History a more focused work than Hubbell s study. Writers like Mary Boykin Chesnut, Kate Chopin, and Charles W. Chesnutt, who go unmentioned in Hubbell s abbreviated account of post-Civil War Southern literature, receive considerable attention...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1982) 81 (4): 467–469.
Published: 01 October 1982
... where 1 passed this evening. [editorial note: He had passed at least part of the evening of the 8th with Temple, whose diary . . . furnishes . . . particulars. . . . ] DUKE UNIVERSITY OLIVER W. FERGUSON Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Biography. By Elizabeth Muhlenfeld. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1973) 72 (1): 159–162.
Published: 01 January 1973
... in more than one sense of the word. Unlike the sharp-tongued and inimitable Mary Boykin Chesnut, these Joneses were relentlessly devout rather than witty. In their solemn religiosity they may well have been more typical of the Old South than the lady who wrote Diary from Dixie. But they are de­ cidedly...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1940) 39 (2): 235–250.
Published: 01 April 1940
... the women, such as Mrs. Chesnut and Mrs. Pryor, kept diaries; and there was a rich harvest of memorabilia. Of all this and much more one is reminded by this all too brief volume. We wish there had been a chapter on Civil War fiction, or at least the mention of Sidney Lanier s Tiger Lilies. Or why...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1938) 37 (4): 416–422.
Published: 01 October 1938
... by the tidewater barons of indigo and rice. During this final era were built such stately dwellings as Mulberry on the great cotton plantation of the Chesnut family near Camden; Milwood, the vast columned seat of the Mannings, overlooking their fields south of Sumter; Belvedere of the Sinklers...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1932) 31 (2): 252–662.
Published: 01 April 1932
..., a unique­ ness to be felt and experienced rather than explained. The proof-read­ ing has been careless. Misspelled names include those of Alexander H. Stephens, B. F. Perry, James Chesnut, Peter Freneau, W. J. Whipper, and A. J. Ransier. There are eighty illustrations. R. H. Woody. ...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1912) 11 (1): 63–74.
Published: 01 January 1912
... and breaks a leg, I may be civilly sympathetic, but I shall take no scientific interest. But, if she runs away with the coachman, the psychological problem attracts my curiosity at once. To take a historical instance. Mrs. Chesnut, in her invaluable Diary, tells a long story of J. E. Johnston s causing huge...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1929) 28 (1): 45–58.
Published: 01 January 1929
... to Richmond]. It is astounding how vast a volume of papers accumulate in a short space 11 Mary Boykin Chesnut, A Diary From Dixie, Edited by Isabelle D. Martin and Myra Lockett Avary, (New York, 1905), 9. Our city is being honored, boasts the editor of the Weekly Montgomery Confederation on March 22, 1861...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1980) 79 (4): 386–397.
Published: 01 October 1980
.... There is no better contemporary record of life in Spartanburg District and not many its equal for the re­ gion. Throughout the literature on women in the Confederacy, in­ cluding the recent work of Bell Wiley, Mary Elizabeth Massey, and the diary kept by another South Carolinian, Mary Boykin Chesnut...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1929) 28 (4): 370–389.
Published: 01 October 1929
.... But they could not be united under the slave trade banner, and the Slave Traders refused to budge. In the end, National Demo­ crats and part of the State Rights men joined to elect a com­ promise candidate, James Chesnut. He belonged to no group, but all agreed that conservatism had triumphed once more...