Talk:Elizabeth Pickett Chevalier

Modern reviews of Drivin Woman
For those interested, though not "reliable sources" for use in main article. . The consensus appears to be that the book is sort of racist in its language and outlook, though it can be viewed as a product of its time and setting (post Civil War Kentucky). See ("The heroine having this thought is America Moncure, and Drivin' Woman follows her from her father's plantation in Appomattox, at the end of the Civil War, to Appalachian Kentucky in 1911, which all sounds well and good except that the "old way of life" in Virginia that America intends to restore is that feel-good antebellum one, where people can be bought and sold and spend their lives in the enforced servitude of others. Wah, wah. Sad trombone. It's just a little too nostalgic for the bad old days, and unlike the characters from Gone with the Wind, which has some of the same problems, you're supposed to sympathize with America and not roll your eyes at her, and so the whole thing didn't work for me.")--Milowent • hasspoken  15:47, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I guess you can't expect the granddaughter of a Confederate general who grew up and ran a tobacco farm in Lexington, Kentucky, before 1920 not to exhibit some tinge of an antebellum racist society. Incidentally, I notice that in the early 1920s she also worked with Henry B. Walthall, star of The Birth of a Nation, to make the 1925 John Ford film Kentucky Pride around her home town (a film in which a horse named "Virginia's Future" is beaten down in tough times but bears a young colt named "Confederacy" that emerges to save the day in a final victory). —BarrelProof (talk) 02:39, 10 January 2015 (UTC)