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| #2462703 in Books | University of Nebraska Press | 2000-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x1.03 x5.25l,1.28 | File type: PDF | 396 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Love this book|By Jennifer L. Theissen|Love this book! Mary Daley is a very interesting individual. If you want a glimps into to New York high society at the time of the Civil War, this is a GREAT book for you!|3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Engaging book, preachy introduction|By Alexandra Griggs|Maria Lydig||
"Her diary, a notch better than history, is life—a minute, intimate, hilarious self-portrait. . . . [She is] irritable, querulous, censorious, self-centered, and idle, but not bad-hearted.”—New Yorker
Rumor, gossip, and innuendo are the weapons of the home front, and no one wielded them with quite the aplomb of Maria Lydig Daly. Her richly detailed comments on everything from inept Union generals to Dorothea Dix’s appearance provide the liveliest memoir to emerge from a Northern noncombatant. Daly was the wife of a prominent New York City judge whose connections allowed her to meet many major figures involved in Northern military and diplomatic strateg...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Diary of a Union Lady, 1861-1865 | Maria Lydig Daly. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
