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A Southern Woman's Story (Paperback, New Ed) Loot Price: R686
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A Southern Woman's Story (Paperback, New Ed): Phoebe Yates Pember

A Southern Woman's Story (Paperback, New Ed)

Phoebe Yates Pember; Introduction by George C Rable

Series: American Civil War Classics

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A Southern Woman's Story is the inaugural volume in the University of South Carolina Press's new paperback series, American Civil War Classics. First published in 1879, the book chronicles Phoebe Pember's experiences as matron of the Confederate Chimborazo Hospital from November 1862 until the fall of Richmond in April 1865. Long an important source in Confederate history, A Southern Woman's Story is also a valuable book for students and scholars of women's history and the social history of the Civil War.

In many ways Phoebe Yates Pember (1823-1913) was a representative upper-class gentlewoman. The daughter of a Jewish merchant of Charleston who moved his family to Savannah in the 1850s, she sought ways to help the Southern cause but she broke all stereotypes by the character and length of her service. Widowed and childless in 1861, Pember took the post of matron at the Confederate Army's Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, Virginia. She labored there throughout the war and later recorded her experiences in A Southern Woman's Story. No dilettante's romance or saccharine Lost Cause tale, it is a remarkably frank treatment of Confederate social and medical history. Pember reports on the gossip and scandals from inside the Confederacy's largest hospital and the embattled city of Richmond, presenting bureaucratic personalities and stock characters with insight and humor.

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Imprint: University of South Carolina Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: American Civil War Classics
Release date: July 2002
First published: May 2002
Authors: Phoebe Yates Pember
Introduction by: George C Rable
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-1-57003-451-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
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LSN: 1-57003-451-6
Barcode: 9781570034510

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