Deep roots, broken branches : a history and memoir /
"Best known for her award-winning book The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War, historian Victoria Bynum turns now to her own history in this multigenerational American saga spanning from 1840 to 1979. Through meticulous historical research, personal letters, diaries, and...
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| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2025]
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| Series: | Willie Morris books in memoir and biography.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Discovering Mary Daniel
- 1. The Welsh roots of an American Civil War love story
- 2. Class matters in the Gilded Age
- 3. Building a family dynasty
- 4. The misfit and the millionaires
- 5. Mary's great rebellion
- 6. Schooled by life
- 7. Motherhood gone awry
- 8. "A lonesome mother's futile hobby"
- 9. My mother's secrets
- 10. Lifting the curtain of shame and guilt
- 11. Children unattended
- 12. Islands of refuge
- 13. My father's story
- 14. My grandmother's rage and sorrow
- Epilogue: Memories and reflections
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.