https://bluecerealeducation.com Sun, 04 Jun 2023 20:20:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://files.bluecerealeducation.com/2023/06/BowlIcon.png https://bluecerealeducation.com 32 32 https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/mary-boykin-chesnuts-diary-part-two-repost/ Fri, 21 Oct 2016 13:06:49 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/mary-boykin-chesnuts-diary-part-two-repost/ Historical documents of a personal nature can be difficult - especially for students - because tone is everything. Overlook a little flirting, or sarcasm, or other emoticon-deficient vibe, and you can misread a source completely. Mrs. Chesnut is kind enough to write on both levels simultaneously - the obvious, smiling appreciation for a friend’s long-awaited offspring, and - unless I’m projecting - a little wry commentary as well. It might even be cruel.]]> 361 https://bluecerealeducation.com/blog/mary-boykin-chesnuts-diary-part-one-repost/ Fri, 21 Oct 2016 12:59:51 +0000 http://localhost:8888/bluecerealwp/blog/mary-boykin-chesnuts-diary-part-one-repost/ Mary Boykin Chesnut was a Southern lady in the purest tradition, well-educated and well-bred. Her husband was the son of a successful plantation owner and an upwardly mobile politico himself. Women in such circumstances were expected to be well-educated, but not given much opportunity to use their fancy brains. In retrospect, it might have been kinder to either keep them as ignorant as possible or let them do stuff - but such were the mores of the day. So she read, she observed, and she wrote. Lots.]]> 360