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Miller told a reporter from The Guardian that her inspirations include David Mitchell, Lorrie Moore, Anne Carson, and Virgil. [29] Miller expressed "hate" and "visceral disgust" towards Ayn Rand's book The Fountainhead. As she herself indicated, she hates the "ideas behind it". Instead, she prefers books by James Herriot and Chinua Achebe. [30]
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee (October 1, 1807 – November 5, 1873) was the wife of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee and the last private owner of Arlington Estate. She was the daughter of George Washington Parke Custis who was the grandson of Martha Washington , the wife of George Washington .
The critic aggregates Books in the Media and Bookmarks gave the book ratings of 4.14 and 4 out of 5, respectively. [2] [3] In a review for The New York Times, Claire Messud describes Miller's Circe as "pleasurable," approving of its feminist themes and its "highly psychologized, redemptive and ultimately exculpatory account" of Circe's familiar ...
Mary Custis Lee (July 12, 1835 – November 22, 1918) was an American heiress and the eldest daughter of Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee. Throughout the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, she remained distant from her family. Spending much of her time traveling, she did not attend the funerals for ...
A comprehensive search for Lee Family papers, which are widely scattered, is ongoing. Since October 2014, the Lee Family Digital Archive has been hosted by Stratford Hall , which was built by Thomas Lee and where Robert E. Lee was born. Dr. Colin Woodward, a historian of the Civil War era and the U.S. South, is the Editor of the Lee Family ...
Anne Carter Lee was born on June 18, 1839, at Arlington Plantation in Virginia. [1] She was the fourth child and second daughter of Robert E. Lee and Mary Anna Custis Lee. [1] Lee was named after her grandmother, Anne Hill Carter Lee, and was a member of the prominent Lee family. [1]
Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) was the son of Henry Lee III, and probably the most famous member of the Lee family. He served as Confederate general in the United States Civil War and later as President of Washington and Lee University , which was named for him and for George Washington .
Anne was born at the family seat, Shirley Plantation in Charles City County, on March 26, 1773.A member of the planter class, she was born into a patrician family of tidewater Virginia and was the daughter of Charles Carter (1732–1806), the fifth-generation owner of Shirley Plantation, and Anne Butler (née Moore) Carter (1750–1809).