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Author Phipps, Sheila R., 1948-

Title Genteel rebel : the life of Mary Greenhow Lee / Sheila R. Phipps.

Imprint Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2004.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  975.5 L514Bp 2004    ---  Available
Description xiv, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-243) and index.
Contents My birthday, I have spent it profitably -- A most accurate remembrance of my wild kicks : the early development of a rebel -- In the palm days of old Winchester : the environment of Mary Greenhow Lee's transformation to responsibility -- Secesh lives here : 132 North Market Street -- Village on the frontier : Winchester, Virginia -- We share & bear : wartime domestic politics in the Lee household -- Nothing to interfere with my soldier work : Mary Greenhow Lee's warfare disguised as housekeeping -- This is surely the day of woman's power : Mary Greenhow Lee's gender warfare -- I feel quite independent now.
Subject Lee, Mary Greenhow, 1819-
Winchester (Va.) -- Biography.
Women -- Virginia -- Winchester -- Biography.
Winchester (Va.) -- History -- 19th century.
Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
ISBN 0807128856 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807129275 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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