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Description:Drawing on her own experiences as a southern aristocrat during wartime, A Family Secret is writer and social critic Eliza Frances Andrews’s fictionalized retelling of the end of her long-cherished way of life. A best seller in both the North and South upon its original publication in 1876, the novel focuses on the plight of upper-class southern women unprepared for the challenges of post–Civil War life, women Andrews described in her own diary as girls “educated only for show.”At its core a love story, A Family Secret revolves around the adventures of Virginia-born Audley Malvern, descendent of one of the “first families” of the Old Dominion, and Ruth Harfleur, long-lost heir to a plantation fortune. Though Andrews pointedly claimed that the novel was not an attempt to “doctor public morals,” her characters both lament the passing of a treasured way of life and decry the brutality of war that smothered the traits of decency and kindness.The novel draws significantly on Andrews’s wartime memories. The scene of a visit to the prisoner-of-war camp at Andersonville was based on stories she had heard from visiting soldiers. The wartime railroad train and the interaction between Confederate officers and the backwoods farmer-soldiers—on whose shoulders the burden of war squarely rested—have their origins in observations recorded in Andrews’s journals. A valuable portrait of the attitudes of class and racial division in the Civil War South, A Family Secret depicts the myths on which antebellum social structure rested and hints at the changes to come in the region’s racial and gender roles and expectations.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Family Secret: A Novel. To get started finding A Family Secret: A Novel, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Drawing on her own experiences as a southern aristocrat during wartime, A Family Secret is writer and social critic Eliza Frances Andrews’s fictionalized retelling of the end of her long-cherished way of life. A best seller in both the North and South upon its original publication in 1876, the novel focuses on the plight of upper-class southern women unprepared for the challenges of post–Civil War life, women Andrews described in her own diary as girls “educated only for show.”At its core a love story, A Family Secret revolves around the adventures of Virginia-born Audley Malvern, descendent of one of the “first families” of the Old Dominion, and Ruth Harfleur, long-lost heir to a plantation fortune. Though Andrews pointedly claimed that the novel was not an attempt to “doctor public morals,” her characters both lament the passing of a treasured way of life and decry the brutality of war that smothered the traits of decency and kindness.The novel draws significantly on Andrews’s wartime memories. The scene of a visit to the prisoner-of-war camp at Andersonville was based on stories she had heard from visiting soldiers. The wartime railroad train and the interaction between Confederate officers and the backwoods farmer-soldiers—on whose shoulders the burden of war squarely rested—have their origins in observations recorded in Andrews’s journals. A valuable portrait of the attitudes of class and racial division in the Civil War South, A Family Secret depicts the myths on which antebellum social structure rested and hints at the changes to come in the region’s racial and gender roles and expectations.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Family Secret: A Novel. To get started finding A Family Secret: A Novel, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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