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
Length39h 45m
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.
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GenreLiterary Classics
Length39 hrs 45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 16, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Complete Works of Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)
2The Mother of Washington and her Times
3PART I
4CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
5CHAPTER II MARY WASHINGTON'S ENGLISH ANCESTRY
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6CHAPTER III THE BALL FAMILY IN VIRGINIA
7CHAPTER IV COAT ARMOR AND THE RIGHT TO BEAR IT
8CHAPTER V TRADITIONS OF MARY BALL'S EARLY LIFE
9CHAPTER VI REVELATIONS OF AN OLD WILL
10CHAPTER VII MARY BALL'S CHILDHOOD
11CHAPTER VIII GOOD TIMES IN OLD VIRGINIA
12CHAPTER IX MARY BALL'S GUARDIAN AND HER GIRLHOOD
13CHAPTER X YOUNG MEN AND MAIDENS OF THE OLD DOMINION
14CHAPTER XI THE TOAST OF THE GALLANTS OF HER DAY
15CHAPTER XII HER MARRIAGE AND EARLY LIFE
16CHAPTER XIII BIRTHPLACE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
17CHAPTER XIV THE CHERRY TREE AND LITTLE HATCHET
18CHAPTER XV THE YOUNG WIDOW AND HER FAMILY
19CHAPTER XVI BETTY WASHINGTON, AND WEDDINGS IN OLD VIRGINIA
20CHAPTER XVII DEFEAT IN WAR: SUCCESS IN LOVE
21CHAPTER XVIII IN AND AROUND FREDERICKSBURG
22CHAPTER XIX SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS, MANNERS, AND CUSTOMS
23CHAPTER XX A TRUE PORTRAIT OF MARY WASHINGTON
24CHAPTER XXI NOON IN THE GOLDEN AGE
25CHAPTER XXII DINNERS, DRESS, DANCES, HORSE-RACES
26PART II
27CHAPTER I THE LITTLE CLOUD
28CHAPTER II THE STORM
29CHAPTER III MARY WASHINGTON IN THE HOUR OF PERIL
30CHAPTER IV OLD REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS
31CHAPTER V THE BATTLE-GROUND
32CHAPTER VI FRANCE IN THE REVOLUTION
33CHAPTER VII "ON WITH THE DANCE, LET JOY BE UNCONFINED"
34CHAPTER VIII LAFAYETTE AND OUR FRENCH ALLIES
35CHAPTER IX IN CAMP AND AT MOUNT VERNON
36CHAPTER X MRS. ADAMS AT THE COURT OF ST. JAMES
37CHAPTER XI THE FIRST WINTER AT MOUNT VERNON
38CHAPTER XII THE PRESIDENT AND HIS LAST VISIT TO HIS MOTHER
39CHAPTER XIII MARY WASHINGTON'S WILL; HER ILLNESS AND DEATH
40CHAPTER XIV TRIBUTES OF HER COUNTRYMEN
41Reminiscences of Peace and War
42Preface
43CHAPTER I WASHINGTON IN THE FIFTIES
44CHAPTER II PRESIDENT PIERCE'S INAUGURATION
45CHAPTER III ADMINISTRATION OF PRESIDENT BUCHANAN
46CHAPTER IV SOCIAL LIFE DURING BUCHANAN'S ADMINISTRATION
47CHAPTER V GAY SOCIAL LIFE IN WASHINGTON
48CHAPTER VI CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIAL LIFE IN 1858 — LEADERS IN SOCIETY
49CHAPTER VII THE THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS
50CHAPTER VIII MEMORABLE DAYS IN THE HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY
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