The Correspondence of Sarah Morgan and Francis Warrington Dawson: With Selected Editorials Written by Sarah Morgan for the Charleston News and Courier (Publications of the Southern Texts Society)
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The Correspondence of Sarah Morgan and Francis Warrington Dawson: With Selected Editorials Written by Sarah Morgan for the Charleston News and Courier (Publications of the Southern Texts Society)

The Correspondence of Sarah Morgan and Francis Warrington Dawson: With Selected Editorials Written by Sarah Morgan for the Charleston News and Courier (Publications of the Southern Texts Society)

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Giselle Roberts (Contributor)  

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The private and public writings in this volume reveal the early relationship between renowned Civil War diarist Sarah Morgan (1842-1909) and her future husband, Francis Warrington Dawson (1840-1889). Gathered here is a selection of their letters along with various articles that Morgan wrote anonymously for the Charleston News and Courier, which Dawson owned and edited. In January 1873 Morgan met Francis Warrington Dawson, an English expatriate, Confederate veteran, and newspaperman. By then Morgan had left her native Louisiana and was living near Columbia, South Carolina, with her younger brother, James Morris Morgan. When Sarah Morgan and Francis Warrington Dawson met, he was mourning the recent death of his first wife. She, in turn, was still grieving over her family's many wartime losses. The couple's relationship came to encompass both the personal and the professional. To free Morgan from an unhappy dependence on her brother, Dawson urged her to write professionally for his paper. During 1873 Morgan wrote more than seventy pieces on such topics as French and Spanish politics, race relations, the insanity plea, funerals, and fashion gossip. 11 b/w photographs
Giselle Roberts is a research associate in the department of history at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of The Confederate Belle.
  • Contributor: Giselle Roberts
  • Imprint: University of Georgia Press
  • ISBN13: 9780820325910
  • Number of Pages: 344
  • Packaged Weight: 597
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: University of Georgia Press
  • Release Date: 2004-06-30
  • Series: Publications of the Southern Texts Society
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Giselle Roberts is a research associate in the department of history at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia. She is the author of The Confederate Belle.

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