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Genteel Rebel: The Life of Mary Greenhow Lee

Genteel Rebel: The Life of Mary Greenhow Lee

Phipps, Sheila R.

Paperback

Series: Southern Biography

Biographies GeneralHistorical FiguresCivil War Period (1850-1877)

Publisher Price: $34.95

ISBN10: 0807129275
ISBN13: 9780807129272
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Oct 13 2003
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.92 Depth: 9.24
Language: English

This elegantly written biography depicts the combined effect of social structure, character, and national crisis on a woman's life. Mary Greenhow Lee (1819-1907) was raised in a privileged Virginia household. As a young woman, she flirted with President Van Buren's son, drank tea with Dolley Madison, and frolicked in bedsheets through the streets of Washington with her sister-in-law, future Confederate spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow. Later in life, Lee debated with senators, fed foreign emissaries and correspondents, scolded generals, and nursed soldiers. As a Confederate sympathizer in the hotly contested small border town of Winchester, Virginia, she ran an underground postal service, hid contraband under her nieces' dresses, abetted the Rebel cause, and was finally banished.

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