Felicity Allen
2201 West End Ave, Nashville, TN 37235, United States
In 1946, Felicity received a Bachelor of Arts from Vanderbilt University.
2201 West End Ave, Nashville, TN 37235, United States
In 1946, Felicity received a Bachelor of Arts from Vanderbilt University.
(Preeminent Civil War historian Frank Vandiver always long...)
Preeminent Civil War historian Frank Vandiver always longed to see an interpretive biography of Jefferson Davis. Finally, more than twenty years after Vandiver expressed that wish, publication of Jefferson Davis, Unconquerable Heart makes such an interpretive biography available. Felicity Allen begins this monumental work with Davis's political imprisonment at the end of the Civil War and masterfully flashes back to his earlier life, interweaving Davis's private life as a schoolboy, a Mississippi planter, a husband, a father, and a political leader.
https://www.amazon.com/Jefferson-Davis-Unconquerable-Heart-Shades/dp/0826212190/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Felicity+Allen%2C+Jefferson+Davis&qid=1575627725&sr=8-1
1999
(Art's recent “educational turn” is viewed within a wider-...)
Art's recent “educational turn” is viewed within a wider-ranging narrative of alternative ideas of education through art.
https://www.amazon.com/Education-Whitechapel-Documents-Contemporary-Art/dp/0262516365/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Felicity+Allen&qid=1575627839&sr=8-1
2011
(The center of this book is Fortress Monroe, Virginia, ins...)
The center of this book is Fortress Monroe, Virginia, inserted in the dateline of every one of the twenty letters printed here. Only a little note at the end, folded to make its own envelope, is different. Its place name is Prison. Both are accurate. Months before the first letter, the US Army converted one of the fort’s gun emplacements into a jail cell, complete with iron bars and an ever-pacing squad of armed soldiers—all to secure one man: Jefferson Davis.
https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Prison-Jefferson-Davis-1865-1866-ebook/dp/B00VF9Q9ZK/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=Felicity+Allen&qid=1575628007&sr=8-3
2014
Ethnicity:
Felicity Allen was of a Scottish and Irish ancestry.
Felicity Allen was born on July 18, 1924, in Louisville, Kentucky, to William Guyton McComas, an actor and insurance agent, and Martha Louise Hall McComas, a homemaker.
In 1946, Felicity received a Bachelor of Arts from Vanderbilt University.
From 1942 to 1950, Peggy worked as a radio announcer at WSM-FM Radio. In 1964 Peggy moved to Auburn with her husband, Ward Allen. After raising four children, she began working on a biography, Jefferson Davis Unconquerable Heart. It was published by the University of Missouri Press in 1999. From 1967 to 1969, she was a teacher of French at Lee Academy. The Texas Review Press published in 2014 her edition of Letters from Prison: Jefferson Davis to his Wife.
(The center of this book is Fortress Monroe, Virginia, ins...)
2014(Art's recent “educational turn” is viewed within a wider-...)
2011(Preeminent Civil War historian Frank Vandiver always long...)
1999Allen was a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Lee County Historical Society, Auburn Chamber Music Society, Phi Beta Kappa, Chi Delta Phi, Phi Sigma Iota.
Quotes from others about the person
"She has so identified herself with Jefferson Davis, so internalized all the feelings, convictions, hopes, fears, illusions, and despairs of the man,that we have placed before our eyes what is virtually a living embodiment of what he was." - Eric L. McKitrick
On September 29, 1951, Felicity married Ward Sykes Allen, a professor. The marriage produced four children: Jeri Allen Earnest, Peter W. S., Mary Christine Allen Bradshaw, and William G. A.
10 July 1922 - 3 December 2017
Ward wrote many articles published in such journals as Philological Quarterly, Renaissance Quarterly, Classical Journal, Sewanee Review, and Moreana. He taught English at Auburn University from 1964-1987.
