Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut is the author behind Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience. Her work focuses on American literature, making classic texts accessible for readers.
Two novels
Two novels
Synopsis
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, known for her Civil War diaries, also penned two intensely autobiographical novels, previously unpublished. These fictionalized accounts, 'The Captain and the Colonel' and 'Two Years - or The Way We Lived Then,' explore the lives of women in the mid-nineteenth-century South. They delve into subjects like gender roles, slave-mistress relations, childhood, education, westward migration, and the Civil War's impact on private lives, offering a unique extension to her historical observations.
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Two novelsUnknown, 2002
216 pages
University Press of VirginiaLanguage: EnglishISBN: 9780813920580
