As the well-educated and socially skilled wife of a prominent
Confederate, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (1823-86) was ideally
situated -- and intellectually equipped -- to record the narrative
of daily life in the Confederacy during the Civil War. Yet while
she is widely recognized for the significant contribution of her
"diaries, " Mary Chesnut's other works chronicling her experiences
in the Civil War South have remained -- until now -- unpublished
and virtually unknown.
Intensely autobiographical novels, The Captain and the Colonel
and Two Years -- or The Way We Lived Then are Chesnut's
fictionalized accounts of the world as women experienced it in the
mid-nineteenth-century South. These short, unfinished novels
address a wide range of subjects related to women and serve as an
extension of the valuable source material found in the diaries,
revealing much about southern history and culture, gender roles,
slave-mistress relations, childhood, education, the experiences of
westward migration, and the impact of the Civil War on private
lives and relationships.
With an introduction by Elizabeth Hanson that places Chesnut's
novels in their social context, and thoughtfully edited by
Elisabeth Muhlenfeld, Mary Chesnut's fiction is a fascinating and
long overdue addition to the library of southern history.
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