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Title: The Lee Girls by Mary Price Coulling ISBN: 0-89587-147-5 Publisher: John F Blair Pub Pub. Date: May, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Meticulously researched and enormously entertaining!
Comment: Anyone interested in Robert E. Lee the man, will be delighted with the insights into his family provided by author Coulling. Lee was an exceptional leader, but his role as a father was even more revealing of his loving nature and the nuances of his personality. In my opinion, this book does a lot to demystify Lee. I do not see him as such a complex and mysterious individual as some historians have labeled him. His consistency is especially evident in this chronicle of family life.
Apart from Lee, the book focuses extensively on the lives of the daughters. Each daughter is portrayed as a complete person, and their individuality is celebrated. One can learn quite a bit about Mary Lee the mother, too, and even the grandparents who were so deeply loved by the girls. The sons are not ignored, either.
There is an overcast of sadness about the story, at least I felt a little sad, because they did have a difficult life. It's true that the Lee family was prominent in society and certainly they can be seen as privileged, but these privileges carry their own burden.
I highly recommend The Lee Girls to all those who want to escape to the past for awhile and enter into the Lee household.
Rating: 5
Summary: A truly excellent and well balanced chronicle
Comment: The Lee Girls by biographer Mary P. Coulling is the informed and informative story of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's four daughters: Mary Custis Lee; Eleanor Agnes Lee; Mildred Childe Lee; and Anne Carter Lee. Diaries, letters, paintings, and other contemporary records were utilized as primary source materials upon which to base an bibliographically historically accurate narrative of these women's lives through girlhood, the horror of war, and the era of reconciliation and rebuilding. A truly excellent and well balanced chronicle, The Lee Girls is a welcome and highly recommended addition to American Regional History, Civil War Studies, and Reconstruction Era Studies collections and supplemental reading lists.
Rating: 5
Summary: well writtern and researched
Comment: Enjoyed the time frame of the book. It was not just the girls during the civil war period but also gave attention to the sons as well. The black and white photos were a plus but I wish the author had featured photos of the two surviving daughters in later life. This is an excellent well researched book into the lives of four charming girls of American history.
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Title: Growing Up in the 1850s: The Journal of Agnes Lee by Mary C. Debutts, Robert E. Debutts, Agnes Lee ISBN: 0807842435 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: January, 1989 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Mrs. Robert E. Lee : The Lady of Arlington by John Perry ISBN: 1590521374 Publisher: Multnomah Publishers Inc. Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family by Paul C. Nagel ISBN: 0195074785 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: March, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Gray Cavalier: The Life and Wars of General William H. F. "Rooney" Lee by Mary Daughtry ISBN: 0306811731 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Mary's World : Love, War, and Family Ties in Nineteenth-century Charleston by Richard N. Cote ISBN: 1929175043 Publisher: Corinthian Books Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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