Mary Chestnut's Civil War Mary Boykin Chesnut was born on her grandparents' estate at Mount Pleasant, South Carolina on March 31, 1823. She learned early about the workings of a plantation by observing her grandmother. Grandmother Miller rose early to assign the cleaning and cooking duties for her servants. Besides keeping the mansion clean and prepared for the frequent guests, Mary's grandmother also took charge of making and mending clothing for the slaves on the plantation. She spent whole
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut: A Diary from Dixie, by Mary Boykin Chesnut, Wife of James Chesnut, Jr., United States Senator from South Carolina, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1905. I to 352 pp. Reviewed by Mayra Catalan 02/27/2016 The Diary of a Dixie Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut: A Diary from Dixie is a story about the life of an elite socialite and her way of seeing everything going around her. The noble was published in 1905, many years after
Sweet Briar College's 1996 Orientation Anthology, (Women's Place, Women's Choices: The Public Careers and Personal Experiences of American Women. Ed. Cynthia M. Patterson and Martha Woodroof, 1996.) Sources Cited Muhlenfeld, Elisabeth. Mary Boykin Chesnut: A Biography. (selection) Cowen, Ruth Schwartz. "Two Washes in the Morning and a Bridge Party at Night: The American Housewife Between the Wars." Solomon, Barbara. "In The Company of Educated Women, Women and the Modernizing of Liberal