Lucy Breckinridge of Grove Hill: The Journal of a Virginia Girl, 1862-1864 / Edition 1

by Mary D. Robertson

Overview

The Civil War memoirs of a high-spirited, progressive woman

Begun to alleviate the "boredom of wartime," Lucy Breckinridge's journal quickly became this intelligent young woman's confidante as she came of age in war-torn Virginia. Nineteen-year-old Breckinridge offers candid views of life on the homefront as she chronicles the war that killed three of her brothers and debates such universal issues as war, peace, religion, love, marriage, and the role of women in society.

While Breckinridge vents frustration over the passive role forced upon women during the Civil War, she writes enthusiastically about social events, friends, and suitors. In her passionate and sometimes irreverent style, Breckinridge offers an honest portrait of life on the family plantation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872499997
Publisher:	University of South Carolina Press
Publication date:	07/01/1994
Series:	Women's Diaries and Letters of the South
Edition description:	REVISED
Pages:	267
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Mary D. Robertson teaches history at Armstrong State College in Savannah, Georgia. She is editor of A Confederate Lady Comes of Age: The Journal of Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward, 1863–1888.