Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (Allan Gurganus)
September 4, 2022
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All is a 718-page historical fiction novel written by Allan Gurganus and published by Ivy Books in 1989. Written as if dictated to someone who visited ninety-nine-year-old Lucy Marsden when she lived in a nursing home, it tells the story of Lucy who, at the age of fifteen, married fifty-year-old Confederate veteran Captain William Marsden around 1900 and had nine children with him. This book explores issues of race through the lens of the Confederate South and serves as a journey of self-discovery for Lucy, and it stayed