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S1 E1 - Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, The Complete Miniseries, Part 1. May 1, 1994. 1 h 31 min. 16+. Spanning more than a century, the extraordinary tale, told in their own words, of Lucy Marsden who in 1984 at the age of 99 is the nation's oldest living confederate widow. Store Filled. Available to buy.
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Books. Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. Allan Gurganus. Knopf, 1989 - Fiction - 718 pages. "Exuberant...Unforgettable." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Lucy Marsden, is narrowing in on her 100th birthday. She had been married to her husband William More Marsden since she was fifteen. But Willie, a veteran of the Civil War, never ...
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1989) is a novel by American author Allan Gurganus. Framed as the story told by 99-year-old Lucy Marsden to an unnamed visitor, the novel offers a fanciful history of the American South, weaving Lucy’s own story with that of her husband, William, a Confederate veteran, and his former slave, Castalia.
Her story encompasses everything from the tragic death of a Confederate boy soldier to the feisty narrator's daily battles in the Home--complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper. Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for ...
Buy Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All First U.K. printing. by Gurganus, Allan (ISBN: 9780394545370) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All: Amazon.co.uk: Gurganus, Allan: 9780394545370: Books
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Mar 16, 2022 · In 1989, after seven years’ composition, Gurganus presented the novel Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters). This first book spent eight months on theNew York Times bestseller list; it became the subject of a New Yorkercartoon and remains a clue on “Jeopardy” (Names for ...
Aug 10, 2021 · Oldest living Confederate widow tells all by Gurganus, Allan, 1947-Publication date 1989 Topics Veterans -- Family relationships -- Fiction, Older women -- Fiction ...
