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"Submissiveness is not my role, but certain platitudes on certain occasions are among the innocent deceits of the sex." A strong character with a fervent belief in woman's changing place, Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1832-1899) was not content to live the life of a typical nineteenth-century Southern belle. Wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens, the secessionist governor of South Carolina on the eve of the Civil War, Lucy was determined to make her mark in the world. She married "the right man," feeling that "a woman with wealth or prestige garnered from her husband's position could attain great power." She urged Pickens to accept a diplomatic mission to the court of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, and in St. Petersburg Lucy captivated the Tsar and his retinue with her beauty and charm. Upon returning to the states, she became First Lady of South Carolina just in time to encourage a Confederate unit named in her honor (The Holcombe Legion) off to war. She was the only woman to have her image engraved on Confederacy paper currency, the uncrowned "Queen of the Confederacy."

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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. p. v
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  1. List of Illustrations
  2. p. vi
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. vii-ix
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xi-xiii
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  1. Principal Characters
  2. pp. xiv-xvi
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  1. CHAPTER ONE: Changing Times (1830–1840)
  2. pp. 1-7
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  1. CHAPTER TWO: “Riches have taken to themselves wings and flown away.” Eugenia Dorothea Holcombe (1840–1846)
  2. pp. 8-17
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  1. CHAPTER THREE “If she wears blue stockings she contrives to let her petticoats hide them.” Lucy Petway Holcombe (1846–1849)
  2. pp. 18-26
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  1. CHAPTER FOUR: “A stranger in a strange land.” Eugenia Dorothea Holcombe (1850)
  2. pp. 27-35
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  1. CHAPTER FIVE: “My spirit is restless and longs for activity.” Lucy Petway Holcombe (1851)
  2. pp. 36-42
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  1. CHAPTER SIX: “The only kindred blood I ever knew, stains the green shore of Cuba.” Lucy Petway Holcombe (1851)
  2. pp. 43-48
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  1. CHAPTER SEVEN: “My home is in the prairied West and God is nearer us than fashion.” Lucy Petway Holcombe (1852–1857)
  2. pp. 49-61
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  1. CHAPTER EIGHT: The Marriage Mart of the South (1857)
  2. pp. 62-72
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  1. CHAPTER NINE: “The heart hath reason which reason knows nothing of.” Blaise Pascal (1858)
  2. pp. 73-78
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  1. CHAPTER TEN: “talking of elevated and mighty themes . . .” Francis W. Pickens (1858)
  2. pp. 79-86
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  1. CHAPTER ELEVEN: “The confused sound of an unknown language . . . made me feel my isolation.” Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1858)
  2. pp. 87-91
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  1. CHAPTER TWELVE: “It was very marked and not known to happen before to a foreigner.” Francis Wilkinson Pickens (1858)
  2. pp. 92-100
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  1. Image Plates
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  1. CHAPTER THIRTEEN: “I suspect it will look more like a Moscovite Don Cossack than an honest American child.” Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1859–1860)
  2. pp. 101-107
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  1. CHAPTER FOURTEEN: “There is nothing real about European society but its hollowness.” Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1860)
  2. pp. 108-115
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  1. CHAPTER FIFTEEN: “I find myself going up the hill to Wyalusing.” Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1860)
  2. pp. 116-125
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  1. CHAPTER SIXTEEN: “I am where duty & honor demand me.” Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1861)
  2. pp. 126-133
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  1. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: “It was grand—it was awful.” Clara Victoria Dargan (1861)
  2. pp. 134-140
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  1. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: “Submissiveness is not my role . . . ” Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1861)
  2. pp. 141-147
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  1. CHAPTER NINETEEN: “The only comfort in all this misery is a little good talk now and then.” Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1861–1863)
  2. pp. 148-157
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  1. CHAPTER TWENTY: “A volcano under that exterior of stillness and glitter.” Clara Victoria Dargan (1863–1865)
  2. pp. 158-164
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  1. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: “Out of the dead, cold ashes, life again.” John Bannister Tabb (1865–1869)
  2. pp. 165-176
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  1. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: “Rouse yourself from the sweet sad dream and face the battle of life.” Ellen Middleton (1869–1875)
  2. pp. 177-183
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  1. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: “The Joan of Arc of Carolina” John Hope Franklin (1876–1893)
  2. pp. 184-191
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  1. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: “We do not forget!” Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1894–1899)
  2. pp. 192-198
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  1. Epilogue
  2. pp. 199-201
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  1. Appendix A: ON LEAVING VILLA DE LANSKOI
  2. pp. 203-205
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  1. Appendix B: PICKENS GENEALOGY
  2. pp. 206-207
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  1. Appendix C: HOLCOMBE GENEALOGY and Abbreviations
  2. pp. 208-210
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 211-234
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 235-242
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 243-253
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