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I am the author, Julia Oliver. DEVOTION is a novel based on the life of Varina Anne ("Winnie") Davis, youngest child of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Winnie was born the last year of the Civil War. She lived as a young child in Canada and Memphis, and from the age of 12 to 17, she attended a boarding school in Germany. After returning to this country speaking better German than she did English, Winnie traveled with her father to Confederate Army reunions during the 1880s, and became an icon of The Lost Cause. She also traveled with her good friends the Joseph Pulitzers, worked as a…
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5 editions- Hardcover · English · 2006University of Georgia Press · 214 pages · 9780820328744
- Other · English · 2011University of Georgia Press · 252 pages · 9780820341576
- Other · English · 2011University of Georgia Press · 224 pages · 9780820378152
- Other · English · 2008University of Georgia Press · 224 pages · 9780820332048
- Other · English · 2006University of Georgia Press · 224 pages · 9781283110563
Children of presidentsFictionUnited States Civil War, 1861-1865The Confederacy;HistoryFiction, historicalFiction, biographicalFiction, historical, general