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Historical person
Carrie Winder McGavock is represented in the linked historical fiction through family, marriage and personal loyalty, military command and battlefield decision-making, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.
Robert Hicks’s The Widow of the South places Carrie Winder McGavock within a narrative shaped by military command and battlefield decision-making, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and family, marriage and personal loyalty. Robert Hicks’s The Orphan Mother places Carrie Winder McGavock within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and crime, espionage and covert power.
Series
The South series links two novels set in Franklin, Tennessee, around Carnton and the historical women whose lives were shaped by slavery, war and its aftermath. The Widow of the South follows Carrie McGavock during the Battle of Franklin and her later care of the soldiers’ cemetery, while…
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