---
title: 'Judith: A Chronicle of Old Virginia'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune'
date: 1899-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Fiction'
- 'Family, Marriage, and Roles of Men and Women'
scriptures:
- 'Job 1'
- 'Psalms 46'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/terhune-1899-judith-a-chronicle-of-old-virginia
---

# Judith: A Chronicle of Old Virginia

Excerpt from Marion Harland's Judith: a chronicle of Old Virginia. Scenes of plantation family life, storytelling, and the panic during Gabriel's slave insurrection as women fortify the house.

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