Canter Brown and Larry Eugene Rivers
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813061146
- eISBN:
- 9780813051420
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813061146.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter traces the years Mary resided with her family at Thomasville, Georgia, following her return from Louisiana with her son. Observing her depression and temporary inability to rise above ...
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This chapter traces the years Mary resided with her family at Thomasville, Georgia, following her return from Louisiana with her son. Observing her depression and temporary inability to rise above the calamity of her marriage, the authors also look closely at the influences surrounding her as she cautiously began again to write essays and poetry. Particularly significant in Mary’s life at this time is the Penfield Georgia Temperance Crusader and its guiding spirits John Henry Seals and Mary Sanders Seals. She is also affected by a number of deaths, including that of first love Leon Bryan. The authors examine the personal goals Mary specifically develops through writing and editing, and they establish the beginnings of her key friendships with Virginia Smith French, Catherine Webb Barber (Towles), and Alexander H. Stephens, as well as her significant rivalry with poet Annie R. Blount.Less
This chapter traces the years Mary resided with her family at Thomasville, Georgia, following her return from Louisiana with her son. Observing her depression and temporary inability to rise above the calamity of her marriage, the authors also look closely at the influences surrounding her as she cautiously began again to write essays and poetry. Particularly significant in Mary’s life at this time is the Penfield Georgia Temperance Crusader and its guiding spirits John Henry Seals and Mary Sanders Seals. She is also affected by a number of deaths, including that of first love Leon Bryan. The authors examine the personal goals Mary specifically develops through writing and editing, and they establish the beginnings of her key friendships with Virginia Smith French, Catherine Webb Barber (Towles), and Alexander H. Stephens, as well as her significant rivalry with poet Annie R. Blount.
Philip Gerard
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781469649566
- eISBN:
- 9781469649580
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469649566.003.0045
- Subject:
- History, American History: Civil War
A reflection on the personal experience of writing the war-of a sense of grief and emotional ambush from encountering so many personal stories of anguish, suffering, death, and loss. Also admiration ...
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A reflection on the personal experience of writing the war-of a sense of grief and emotional ambush from encountering so many personal stories of anguish, suffering, death, and loss. Also admiration for wanton courage, often spent in an abominable cause. And a sense of great unfinished business, after a war that should have settled certain matters for good.Less
A reflection on the personal experience of writing the war-of a sense of grief and emotional ambush from encountering so many personal stories of anguish, suffering, death, and loss. Also admiration for wanton courage, often spent in an abominable cause. And a sense of great unfinished business, after a war that should have settled certain matters for good.
