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Article: The Lost Cause's female champions.(TRAVEL)(THE CIVIL WAR)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 24, 2004
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Byline: Peter Bridges, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Sarah E. Gardner has turned a doctoral dissertation into a very readable account of the Southern female writers who for decades after the Civil War entertained American readers - many of them in the North - with tales of the brave white ladies of the Confederacy and their gallant officer loves.
It was, as she says, a prodigious body of work. It contributed appreciably to the Southern myth of the noble Lost Cause, first engendered by Edward A. Pollard in his 1866 work by that name. (The author does not mention that Pollard later abjured his views, deciding it was good that the Confederacy had lost.)
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