Varina Howell, Volume 1: Wife of Jefferson Davis

This first volume of a two-part biography of Jefferson Davis's wife presents an accurate historical narrative of the Southern Confederacy. "Varina Davis is a lady in any event," Southern women of the aristocratic circles of Washington told the war correspondent of the London Times who had been sent to the National Capital to report all the news he could gather concerning the secession of the Southern States from the great American Union. There was a finality in their tones and manner as if the fact settled the whole question and right of secession. And being such perfect ladies themselves, who could be a better judge of what it took to be one. They further informed him that Varina was popular and had friends and social influence in Washington, adding with pursed lips that she belonged to the set they called "nice people"; not like "such people" as he had seen in the White House. Thus Mrs. Jefferson Davis was described to one who, with piqued curiosity, was soon to meet her as the First Lady of the Southern Confederacy. But Varina Howell Davis came proudly to her high station. She was not without a due understanding of its significance, nor was she without the feeling that she, in some degree, deserved the distinction." —from the first chapter of Eron Rowland's Varina Howell, Wife of Jefferson Davis Volume One

© 2000 Pelican Publishing (E-bog): 9781455613540

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E-bog: 31. januar 2000