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Jane Turner Censer is a professor emeritus of history and an author in the United States. She was written about Southern women. She wrote a book about Amélie Rives. She appeared in C-Span discussing the book.
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Professor Censer's most recent book, The Princess of Albemarle: Amélie Rives, Author and Celebrity at the Fin de Siècle(University of Virginia Press, spring 2022), explores the life of Amélie Rives, a Virginia author best known for her beauty, tumultuous personal life, and a scandalous best seller. After her career was derailed by marital woes and ...
The Princess of Albemarle: Amélie Rives, Author and Celebrity at the Fin de Siècle. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 2022. The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865‑1895.Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. North Carolina Planters and Their Children, 1800‑1860.Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984; p...
History 811: Doctoral Research Seminar in History History 711: Research Seminar in U.S. History: Antebellum America, 1815-1861 History 633: The Era of Reconstruction, 1863‑1880 History 618: The Age of Jackson, 1815-1854 History 615: Problems in U.S. History: History of Private Life in the United States History 615: Problems in U.S. History: The Ant...
"Becoming an Author: Amélie Rives's Audacious Entry into Publishing," Virginia Museum of History and Culture, April 28, 2022 "The Southern Lady and the Northern Publishers: A Tumultuous Relationship," Presidential Address, Southern Historical Association, Nov. 9, 2018 Plenary Session, "The Confederacy, Its Symbols, and the Politics of Public Cultur...
Sheri Huerta, "A Great Uneasiness In Our County": Slavery and Its Influence on Family and Community Stability in Northern Virginia, 1782-1860(2017) Curtis Vaughn, Freedom Is Not Enough: African Americans in Antebellum Fairfax County(2014) Stephen Sledge, The Bitter Fruit of Secession: Union Army Occupation and Reconstruction on the Virginia Peninsu...
Jane Turner Censer focuses on elite white women in the upper South and argues that they reconfigured what it meant to be a "southern belle" in the years following the Civil War. Censer focuses on the most privileged white women in the upper South because their education and status gave them chances denied to others.
Informed by myriad primary documents, Jane Turner Censer immerses us in the world of postwar southern women as they rethought and rebuilt themselves, their families, and their region during a brief but important period of relative freedom.
- Jane Turner Censer
- 2003
Today, we are happy to bring you our conversation with Jane Turner Censer, author of THE PRINCESS OF ALBEMARLE: Amélie Rives, Author and Celebrity at the Fin de Siècle. What inspired you to write this book?
Jane Turner Censer draws from her new biography, The Princess of Albemarle: Amélie Rives, Author and Celebrity at the Fin de Siècle, to explain how Rives went from anonymity to a household name.
Jane Turner Censer, a professor of history at George Mason University, has published extensively on the pre-Civil War planter family, and in this volume she looks at the contested nature of women's identities and roles in the Reconstruction Era. Education both its nature and function-is an important component of Censer's study.
