Monday, July 26, 2010

Augusta Jane Evans

Augusta Jane Evans (1835-1909)

Augusta Jane Evans (1835-1909)

Augusta Jane Wilson, or Augusta Evans Wilson, (May 8, 1835 May 9, 1909) was an American Southern author and one of the pillars of Southern literature. She wrote nine novels: Inez (1850), Beulah (1859), Macaria (1863), St. Elmo (1866), Vashti (1869), Infelice (1875), At the Mercy of Tiberius (1887), A Speckled Bird (1902), and Devota (1907). Given her support for the Confederate States of America from the perspective of a Southern patriot, and her literary activities during the American Civil War, she can be deemed as having contributed decisively to the literary and cultural development of the Confederacy in particular, and of the South in general, as a civilization.



[Inez | Beulah | St Elmo]


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