Download or read book Varina Howell, Wife of Jefferson Davis written by Eron Rowland and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1927 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of this Biography has received flattering reviews from critics on the staff of the Nation, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Boston Transcript and the London Times. Both Gamaliel Bradford and William E. Dodd have been warm in their commendation of the second volume. In this volume Mrs. Rowland had written a charming and accurate historical narrative of the Southern Confederacy in which the wife of Jefferson Davis played a part that holds and fascinates the reader. The narrative written in an easy, graceful yet frank and forceful style, places the work among the year's important contributions to American biography.