The Journal of Southern History, May 1st, 2002
"If You Love That Lady Don't Marry Her": The Courtship Letters of Sally McDowell and John Miller, 1854-1856. Edited by Thomas E. Buckley, SJ. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, c. 2000. Pp. [xlvi ], 896. $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-1278-6.)
Sally McDowell was a rare woman, indeed. Not only did she own and manage a large Virginia plantation, she was very much an anomaly in antebellum southern society. McDowell was a divorcee. By the time John Miller asked her to marry him in 1854, McDowell had been divorced from Francis Thomas, the former governor of Maryland, for eight years. Though ...
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