Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut, was a South Carolina author noted for a book published as her Civil War diary, a "vivid picture of a society in the throes of its life-and-death struggle." She described the war from within her upper-class circles of Southern planter society, but encompassed all classes in her book. She was married to a lawyer who served as a United States senator and Confederate officer. Unlike her husband, Mary secretly held anti-slavery views. Chesnut worked toward a final...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth31 March 1823
CountryUnited States of America
I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.
The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.