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![]() ![]() The book is not a simple autobiography, for Nation's material is not limited to the exposition of her life. Nation (1908), her one contribution to American letters, chronicles Nation's mission to defend love and life in the American family from the demon rum. Nation's autobiography, The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Instead, Nation was determined never to suffer the deprivation of love, which her first husband's addiction to drink had brought her. ![]() Complete with a noble, upright father, a mother sporadically deranged by the illusion that she was Queen Victoria, and a faithful mammy with a grip on reality, Nation emerged from the fancies of childhood and the Civil War, like Scarlett O'Hara, with God as her witness-but it was not physical hunger she vowed never to endure again. Nation describes it, this American symbol of rampant morality is perhaps our real Scarlett O'Hara, stripped of all romantic distortion. Born 25 November 1846, Garrard County, Kentucky died 2 June 1911, Leavenworth, Kansasĭaughter of George and Mary Campbell Moore married Dr.Charles Gloyd, 1867 David Nation, 1877īorn into the antebellum American "paradise" of faithful slaves and bountiful nature, as Carry A. ![]()
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