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10 de abr. de 2018 · Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederacy, and Varina Davis was his wife — the Confederate first lady. It's Varina who caught Frazier's attention. His novel depicts Mrs. Davis long ...
Varina Davis spent most of the fifteen years between 1845 and 1860 in Washington, where she had demanding social duties as a politician's wife. Society there was fully bipartisan, and she was expected to entertain on a regular basis. The couple rented comfortable houses in town, where she organized many receptions and dinner parties.
Varina Howell Davis (1826-1906) was the second wife of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, and thus the only first lady of the Confederacy. Born in rural Louisiana to a family with roots in both the North and the South, she was educated at a boarding school in Philadelphia. She married Davis, a widower, in 1845. She is known to have been skeptical about the South's ...
4 de dez. de 2017 · Varina Davis. The second wife of Jefferson Davis was born at "The Briars" in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1826. Her father, William Burr Howell, was a close friend of Davis' older brother, Joe. It was through this connection that Varina met her future husband in 1843 while she and her father visited with the elder Davis at his Hurricane Plantation ...
3 de abr. de 2018 · Varina Davis is the narrator, second wife of Jefferson Davis, the only President of the Confederate States, and she must find safety for herself and her children, including the young boy named James, and a few others. They are traveling through the remains of towns, by homes that have likely been raided multiple times, already.
Yet the life of Varina Howell Davis, a first lady during four of the most tumultuous years in U.S. history, is frequently ignored, pushing her contributions to U.S. history deeper into the forgotten past. Although the post-Civil War lives of Jefferson and Varina Davis are largely disregarded in mainstream history, the end of the Civil War was ...
5 de abr. de 2018 · Davis believed that the U.S. Constitution gave him an absolute right to own other people, and he led the South’s secession from the United States and into a terrible civil war. Varina Davis ...
