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008			160128t20162016tnu b 000 1 eng
010			_a 2016000399
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092			_aLove, _bDorothy
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aLove, Dorothy, _d1949- _eauthor. _919700
245	1	0	_aMrs. Lee and Mrs. Gray / _cDorothy Love.
264		1	_aNashville, Tennessee : _bThomas Nelson, _c[2016]
264		4	_c©2016
300			_a386 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
520			_a"A general's wife and a slave girl forge a friendship that transcends race, culture, and the crucible of Civil War. Mary Anna Custis Lee is a great-granddaughter of Martha Washington, wife of Confederate General Robert E Lee, and heiress to Virginia's storied Arlington house and General Washington's personal belongings. Born in bondage at Arlington, Selina Norris Gray learns to read and write in the schoolroom Mary and her mother keep for the slave children, and eventually becomes Mary's housekeeper and confidante. As Mary's health declines, Selina becomes her personal maid, strengthening a bond that lasts until death parts them. Forced to flee Arlington at the start of the Civil War, Mary entrusts the keys to her beloved home to no one but Selina. When Union troops begin looting the house, it is Selina who confronts their commander and saves many of its historic treasures. In a story spanning crude slave quarters, sunny schoolrooms, stately wedding parlors, and cramped birthing rooms, novelist Dorothy Love amplifies the astonishing true-life account of an extraordinary alliance and casts fresh light on the tumultuous years leading up to and through the wrenching battle for a nation's soul. A classic American tale, Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Gray is the first novel to chronicle this beautiful fifty-year friendship forged at the crossroads of America's journey from enslavement to emancipation"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"Despite years of separation and increasing turmoil, an uncommon friendship endures"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (page 382).
520			_aMary Anna Custis Lee is the wife of Confederate General Robert E Lee, and heiress to Virginia's storied Arlington house. Selina Norris Gray was born in bondage at Arlington, learned to read and write in the schoolroom Mary and her mother kept for the slave children, and eventually became Mary's housekeeper and confidante. Forced to flee Arlington at the start of the Civil War, Mary entrusts the keys to her beloved home to no one but Selina. When Union troops begin looting the house, it is Selina who must save its historic treasures.
600	1	0	_aLee, Mary Randolph Custis, _d1807-1873 _vFiction. _9307103
650		0	_aAfrican American women _vFiction. _927527
650		0	_aSlaves _zUnited States _vFiction. _9109836
650		0	_aFemale friendship _vFiction. _919755
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _y19th century _vFiction. _991848
655		7	_aBiographical fiction. _2lcgft _9682
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft _9683
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