Wright, John, pseud. See Bourne, R. William.
Wright, Louise Wigfall (Mrs. D. Giraud Wright). Southern girl in ‘61: the wartime memories of a Confederate senator’s daughter. [**]$2.75. Doubleday.
“The narrative begins in Texas, continues through the author’s child-life in Washington; and, during her school days in Boston, carries the thread of the public story rather than her own, reproducing letters showing progress of events in the South. She reached Richmond just after the battle of Manassas; her record ends with Kirby Smith’s surrender; prominent men and women are introduced in incident, anecdote, and by portrait.”—Outlook.
| * | + | Critic. 47: 575. D. ‘05. 90w. |
“The volume under review has an interest and value that the social histories have not.” Walter L. Fleming.
| + + | Dial. 39: 269 N. 1, ‘05. 920w. |
“These books are really worth while, if for no other purpose but to show how ridiculously fallacious are the Southern heroines made up by writers like Cyrus Townsend Brady and George Gary Eggleston.”
| + | Ind. 59: 986. O. 26, ‘05. 100w. |
[*] “A girl sees only the surface of things, and what she does not understand she is not likely to remember, nearly half a century later. So the recollections are about what one should expect. They are pleasing, although often thin.”
| + | Nation. 81: 405. N. 16, ‘05. 1890w. |