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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All: With Amber Brooke, Donald Sutherland, Diane Lane, Kathryn Morris. Lucy Marsden, an elderly woman, relives the terror of the Civil War through her memories of her husband, Captain Willie Marsden, whom she married when she was just 14 years old.
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All is a 1989 first novel by Allan Gurganus [1] which was on the New York Times Best Seller list for eight months. It won the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, [2] was a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and sold over four million copies.
Mark Snow. Released. 1998 — US. CD — Album. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1994 CD release of "The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All" on Discogs.
Plot. On her 99th birthday, Lucy Honicut Marsden (Anne Bancroft) recalls her life as the 14-year-old bride of a veteran of the American Civil War. Cast. Diane Lane as young Lucy Honicut Marsden. Donald Sutherland as Capt. William Marsden. Cicely Tyson as Castalia, Marsden Family House Enslaved Maid. Anne Bancroft as Lucy Marsden (age 99)
A two-part miniseries based on the novel by Allan Gurganus that dramatizes the post-Civil War years to the present through the irreverent eyes of 100-year-old Lucy Marsden, a widow now living in a North Carolina charity home.
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All. On her 100th birthday, Lucy Marsden recalls her life as a Civil War veteran's 14-year-old bride. Content collapsed.
Jan 20, 2007 · Told through the experience of a teenage bride who married a Civil War veteran 3x her age, and tells of how her husband's PTSD took the form of his obsession with the death by sniper fire of his childhood friend and fellow enlistee, Ned, who is never thereafter far from his thoughts and the triggering emotional trauma from combat.
