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.In many respects she was scarcely an American,having spent almost half her life abroad before she returned to theStates in 1881.In Karlsruhe she kept a scrapbook with numerous me-mentoes from such figures as Bismarck and Moltke, and a few imagesfrom her native country, including a Confederate flag.She was fluentin German and French, and her accent when she spoke English wasmittel-European.Sometimes Winnie had to look up words such as247 the girdled treegingham in the dictionary, and she made mistakes in usage, as if shewere trying to translate German noun constructions into English.Sheis best described as a transatlantic figure unlike her mother, anAmerican who was drawn to European culture, or her father, whofelt homesick in the Luxembourg Gardens.6But she did have some of the right qualities for her highly special-ized role.She was anointed partly because Maggie Hayes had left theSouth, and because she was more pliant than her sister and more anx-ious to please her parents.Although she was not beautiful by the stan-dards of the late nineteenth century, having her mother s olive com-plexion and her father s sharp features, she was tall and slender withlustrous eyes.Ever since she was a girl, Winnie struck people as bothyoung and old, and she was self-possessed for a woman in her twen-ties.At least one of her contemporaries found her a little affected,but white Southerners seemed to want an archetype to representwomanhood as they understood it, and she became that archetype,propelled forward by their expectations.She had no history with thepublic, as her mother did, and her fealty to the Confederacy de-lighted the older generation, especially veterans, while her sophisti-cated manner seemed to inspire young women.To her contemporar-ies, she represented both the Old South and the New.Perhaps shehelped both generations convince themselves that something goodhad come out of the Confederacy.7Soon Winnie became famous in the country at large.In 1886 shetraveled to Syracuse to visit her mother s friends, the Emorys, andshe was nervous about the reception she might receive in the North.Syracuse was a hilly town that had prospered from the salt trade andstill possessed a frontier briskness.The city was proud of its reformertradition, including a vital branch of the abolitionist movement, butWinnie received a cordial welcome from people who had known theDavises before the war or did not care about the conflict or who herparents might be.Callers flocked to meet Winnie, and journalists re-ported her every move as she attended the opera, went to a dance,and took a sleigh ride.One of her Yankee cousins, John MeredithRead, a Republican who had served as a brigadier general in the248 the girdled treeUnited States Army and retired in Paris, deemed her an honor tothe entire family.Winnie played her part, as expected.At a dinnerparty in Syracuse, she entertained guests with tales of plantation life,a subject she knew nothing about from personal experience.She re-ceived admiring mail from friends of the Emorys, such as AdmiralJames Jouette of the U.S.Navy and Manton Marble, a Democrat andformer owner of the New York World, who began sending her books.8Her subsequent trip to the North in 1888 to visit the Emorys andthe Pulitzers sealed her fame.Charles Dudley Warner, editor ofHarper s Magazine, approvingly pronounced her free from war-related bitterness, and an anonymous Southerner declared that her willing-ness to travel through the North was an inspiration.To cap it off, afew Northerners named their daughters after her.A printer in St.Louis made seventy-five thousand copies of her image, and it soldthroughout the country.At some time in the 1880s she met PresidentGrover Cleveland, the first D
.In many respects she was scarcely an American,having spent almost half her life abroad before she returned to theStates in 1881.In Karlsruhe she kept a scrapbook with numerous me-mentoes from such figures as Bismarck and Moltke, and a few imagesfrom her native country, including a Confederate flag.She was fluentin German and French, and her accent when she spoke English wasmittel-European.Sometimes Winnie had to look up words such as247 the girdled treegingham in the dictionary, and she made mistakes in usage, as if shewere trying to translate German noun constructions into English.Sheis best described as a transatlantic figure unlike her mother, anAmerican who was drawn to European culture, or her father, whofelt homesick in the Luxembourg Gardens.6But she did have some of the right qualities for her highly special-ized role.She was anointed partly because Maggie Hayes had left theSouth, and because she was more pliant than her sister and more anx-ious to please her parents.Although she was not beautiful by the stan-dards of the late nineteenth century, having her mother s olive com-plexion and her father s sharp features, she was tall and slender withlustrous eyes.Ever since she was a girl, Winnie struck people as bothyoung and old, and she was self-possessed for a woman in her twen-ties.At least one of her contemporaries found her a little affected,but white Southerners seemed to want an archetype to representwomanhood as they understood it, and she became that archetype,propelled forward by their expectations.She had no history with thepublic, as her mother did, and her fealty to the Confederacy de-lighted the older generation, especially veterans, while her sophisti-cated manner seemed to inspire young women.To her contemporar-ies, she represented both the Old South and the New.Perhaps shehelped both generations convince themselves that something goodhad come out of the Confederacy.7Soon Winnie became famous in the country at large.In 1886 shetraveled to Syracuse to visit her mother s friends, the Emorys, andshe was nervous about the reception she might receive in the North.Syracuse was a hilly town that had prospered from the salt trade andstill possessed a frontier briskness.The city was proud of its reformertradition, including a vital branch of the abolitionist movement, butWinnie received a cordial welcome from people who had known theDavises before the war or did not care about the conflict or who herparents might be.Callers flocked to meet Winnie, and journalists re-ported her every move as she attended the opera, went to a dance,and took a sleigh ride.One of her Yankee cousins, John MeredithRead, a Republican who had served as a brigadier general in the248 the girdled treeUnited States Army and retired in Paris, deemed her an honor tothe entire family.Winnie played her part, as expected.At a dinnerparty in Syracuse, she entertained guests with tales of plantation life,a subject she knew nothing about from personal experience.She re-ceived admiring mail from friends of the Emorys, such as AdmiralJames Jouette of the U.S.Navy and Manton Marble, a Democrat andformer owner of the New York World, who began sending her books.8Her subsequent trip to the North in 1888 to visit the Emorys andthe Pulitzers sealed her fame.Charles Dudley Warner, editor ofHarper s Magazine, approvingly pronounced her free from war-related bitterness, and an anonymous Southerner declared that her willing-ness to travel through the North was an inspiration.To cap it off, afew Northerners named their daughters after her.A printer in St.Louis made seventy-five thousand copies of her image, and it soldthroughout the country.At some time in the 1880s she met PresidentGrover Cleveland, the first D
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