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Edith D. Pope and Her Nashville Friends: Guardians of the Lost Cause in the Confederate Veteran. By John A. Simpson. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. Pp. xviii, 276. $35.00, ISBN 1-57233-211-5.)
Edith D. Pope spent forty years working for Confederate Veteran magazine, twenty of them as editor. In his third book, John A. Simpson examines Pope's role in the feminization of the Confederate memorial movement. Additionally, Simpson explores how the Civil War and its aftermath profoundly changed the lives of elite white southern women.
Born in 1869 to a socially prominent plantation family, Pope, like others of her generation, inherited little wealth but a strong sense of regional pride. In 1892, four years after her graduation from Tennessee Female College, she...