{"product_id":"varina-howell-wife-of-jefferson-davis-volume-i-paperback","title":"Varina Howell: Wife of Jefferson Davis: Volume I - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEron Rowland\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVarina Davis is a lady in any event, Southern women of the\u003cbr\u003earistocratic circles of Washington told the war correspondent of the\u003cbr\u003eLondon Times who had been sent to the National Capital to report\u003cbr\u003eall the news he could gather concerning the secession of the Southern\u003cbr\u003eStates from the great American Union. There was a finality in their tones\u003cbr\u003eand manner as if the fact settled the whole question and right of\u003cbr\u003esecession. And being such perfect ladies themselves, who could be a better\u003cbr\u003ejudge of what it took to be one. . . . They further informed him that\u003cbr\u003eVarina was popular and had friends and social influence in Washington, \u003cbr\u003eadding with pursed lips that she belonged to the set they called 'nice\u003cbr\u003epeople'; not like 'such people' as he had seen in the White House.\u003cbr\u003eThus Mrs. Jefferson Davis was described to one who, with piqued curiosity, \u003cbr\u003ewas soon to meet her as the First Lady of the Southern Confederacy. . . .\u003cbr\u003eBut Varina Howell Davis came proudly to her high station. She was not\u003cbr\u003ewithout a due understanding of its significance, nor was she without the\u003cbr\u003efeeling that she, in some degree, deserved the distinction.\u003cbr\u003e--from Chapter I\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this volume, Mrs. Rowland has written a charming and accurate\u003cbr\u003ehistorical narrative of the Southern Confederacy in which the wife of\u003cbr\u003eJefferson Davis plays a part that holds and fascinates the reader. The\u003cbr\u003enarrative, written in an easy, yet frank and forceful style, denotes the\u003cbr\u003ework as an important contribution to American biography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 528\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.31 x 8.08 x 5.68 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 19, 1927\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42167291838599,"sku":"9781565547865","price":40.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/66e4c4a46175032a260c6cfbf6d87e94.webp?v=1733326633","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/varina-howell-wife-of-jefferson-davis-volume-i-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}