The Complete Works of Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. The Mother of Washington and her Times, Reminiscences of Peace and War, The Birth of the Nation, My DayBy Sara Agnes Rice Pryor
Length40h 10m
About this audiobook
The Complete Works of Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (Illustrated Edition) gathers the principal writings of a significant, if once overlooked, chronicler of nineteenth-century Virginia and the American Civil War. Combining memoir, historical recollection, domestic narrative, and observations on literature and society, the volume preserves Pryor's distinctive fusion of personal testimony and antiquarian research. Her prose is intimate yet disciplined, attentive to material detail, family memory, regional custom, and the moral ambiguities of a nation divided by war. The illustrations complement this documentary impulse, placing her narratives within the visual culture of the period and illuminating the people, places, and objects that animate her account. Read in the context of women's life writing, Confederate memory, and postbellum historical composition, the collection offers both literary interest and valuable primary evidence. Born into a prominent Virginia family and later married to the lawyer and politician Roger Atkinson Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice Pryor experienced the upheavals of secession, war, displacement, and Reconstruction firsthand. Her writing emerged from a desire to preserve a vanishing social world while interpreting the personal costs of historical change. As a woman working within the conventions of memoir and domestic authorship, she transformed private recollection into a public historical record, revealing how memory is shaped by loyalty, loss, class, gender, and regional identity. This edition is recommended to readers of Civil War history, Southern studies, women's writing, and nineteenth-century autobiography. It rewards careful reading not as an uncomplicated record of the past, but as a layered act of remembrance—rich in observation, emotionally persuasive, and revealing about the ways Americans narrated a fractured national experience.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics
Length40 hrs 10 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 16, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2PART I
3CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
4CHAPTER II MARY WASHINGTON'S ENGLISH ANCESTRY
5CHAPTER III THE BALL FAMILY IN VIRGINIA
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6CHAPTER IV COAT ARMOR AND THE RIGHT TO BEAR IT
7CHAPTER V TRADITIONS OF MARY BALL'S EARLY LIFE
8CHAPTER VI REVELATIONS OF AN OLD WILL
9CHAPTER VII MARY BALL'S CHILDHOOD
10CHAPTER VIII GOOD TIMES IN OLD VIRGINIA
11CHAPTER IX MARY BALL'S GUARDIAN AND HER GIRLHOOD
12CHAPTER X YOUNG MEN AND MAIDENS OF THE OLD DOMINION
13CHAPTER XI THE TOAST OF THE GALLANTS OF HER DAY
14CHAPTER XII HER MARRIAGE AND EARLY LIFE
15CHAPTER XIII BIRTHPLACE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
16CHAPTER XIV THE CHERRY TREE AND LITTLE HATCHET
17CHAPTER XV THE YOUNG WIDOW AND HER FAMILY
18CHAPTER XVI BETTY WASHINGTON, AND WEDDINGS IN OLD VIRGINIA
19CHAPTER XVII DEFEAT IN WAR: SUCCESS IN LOVE
20CHAPTER XVIII IN AND AROUND FREDERICKSBURG
21CHAPTER XIX SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS
22CHAPTER XX A TRUE PORTRAIT OF MARY WASHINGTON
23CHAPTER XXI NOON IN THE GOLDEN AGE
24CHAPTER XXII DINNERS, DRESS, DANCES, HORSE-RACES
25PART II
26CHAPTER I THE LITTLE CLOUD
27CHAPTER II THE STORM
28CHAPTER III MARY WASHINGTON IN THE HOUR OF PERIL
29CHAPTER IV OLD REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS
30CHAPTER V THE BATTLE-GROUND
31CHAPTER VI FRANCE IN THE REVOLUTION
32CHAPTER VII "ON WITH THE DANCE, LET JOY BE UNCONFINED"
33CHAPTER VIII LAFAYETTE AND OUR FRENCH ALLIES
34CHAPTER IX IN CAMP AND AT MOUNT VERNON
35CHAPTER X MRS. ADAMS AT THE COURT OF ST. JAMES
36CHAPTER XI THE FIRST WINTER AT MOUNT VERNON
37CHAPTER XII THE PRESIDENT AND HIS LAST VISIT TO HIS MOTHER
38CHAPTER XIII MARY WASHINGTON'S WILL; HER ILLNESS AND DEATH
39CHAPTER XIV TRIBUTES OF HER COUNTRYMEN
40Preface
41CHAPTER I WASHINGTON IN THE FIFTIES
42CHAPTER II PRESIDENT PIERCE'S INAUGURATION
43CHAPTER III ADMINISTRATION OF PRESIDENT BUCHANAN
44CHAPTER IV SOCIAL LIFE DURING BUCHANAN'S ADMINISTRATION
45CHAPTER V GAY SOCIAL LIFE IN WASHINGTON
46CHAPTER VI CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIAL LIFE IN 1858 — LEADERS IN SOCIETY
47CHAPTER VII THE THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS
48CHAPTER VIII MEMORABLE DAYS IN THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY
49CHAPTER IX RAPID PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT THE SOUTH
50CHAPTER X VIRGINIA AGAIN THE BATTLE-GROUND
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