Author: Augusta Jane Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
A girl is falsely accused of killing her grandfather.
At the Mercy of Tiberius
Author: Augusta Jane Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
A girl is falsely accused of killing her grandfather.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
A girl is falsely accused of killing her grandfather.
At the Mercy of Tiberius, a Novel
Author: Augusta Evans Wilson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781985199156
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Augusta Jane Wilson, or Augusta Evans Wilson (May 8, 1835 - May 9, 1909), was an American author of Southern literature. She was the first woman to earn US$100,000 through her writing. Wilson was a native of Columbus, Georgia, and her first book, Inez, a Tale of the Alamo, was written when she was still young. It was published by the Harpers, but met with indifferent success. In 1859, her second book, Beulah, was issued, and it became at once popular. It was selling well when the American Civil War broke out. Cut off from the world of publishers, and intensely concerned for the cause of secession, she wrote nothing more until several years later, when she published her third story Macaria, dedicated to the soldiers of the Southern Army. This book was burned by some protesters. After the war closed, Wilson travelled to New York with the copy of St. Elmo, which was speedily published and met with great success. Her later works, Vashti; Infelice; and At the Mercy of Tiberius had phenomenal success. In 1868, she married Lorenzo Madison Wilson, of Alabama, and they resided at Spring
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781985199156
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Augusta Jane Wilson, or Augusta Evans Wilson (May 8, 1835 - May 9, 1909), was an American author of Southern literature. She was the first woman to earn US$100,000 through her writing. Wilson was a native of Columbus, Georgia, and her first book, Inez, a Tale of the Alamo, was written when she was still young. It was published by the Harpers, but met with indifferent success. In 1859, her second book, Beulah, was issued, and it became at once popular. It was selling well when the American Civil War broke out. Cut off from the world of publishers, and intensely concerned for the cause of secession, she wrote nothing more until several years later, when she published her third story Macaria, dedicated to the soldiers of the Southern Army. This book was burned by some protesters. After the war closed, Wilson travelled to New York with the copy of St. Elmo, which was speedily published and met with great success. Her later works, Vashti; Infelice; and At the Mercy of Tiberius had phenomenal success. In 1868, she married Lorenzo Madison Wilson, of Alabama, and they resided at Spring
At the Mercy of Tiberius
Author: Augusta Jane Evans
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734053897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta Jane Evans
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734053897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta Jane Evans
At the Mercy of Tiberius
Author: Augusta J. (Jane) Evans
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781523791675
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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 was born Augusta Jane Evans on May 8, 1835, in Columbus, Georgia. The area of her birth was then known as Wynnton (now MidTown). As a young girl in 19th-century America she received little in the way of a formal education. However, she became a voracious reader at an early age.Her father, Matthew Evans, suffered bankruptcy and lost the family's Sherwood Hall property in the 1840s. He moved his family of 10 from Georgia to San Antonio, Texas, in 1845. Wilson wrote in the domestic sentimental style of the Victorian Age. Critics have praised the intellectual competence of her female characters, but as her heroes eventually succumb to traditional values, Evans has been described as an antifeminist. Of St. Elmo one critic maintained, "the trouble with the heroine of St. Elmo was that she swallowed an unabridged dictionary." Wilson was the first American woman author to earn over $100,000. This would be a record unsurpassed until Edith Wharton.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781523791675
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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 was born Augusta Jane Evans on May 8, 1835, in Columbus, Georgia. The area of her birth was then known as Wynnton (now MidTown). As a young girl in 19th-century America she received little in the way of a formal education. However, she became a voracious reader at an early age.Her father, Matthew Evans, suffered bankruptcy and lost the family's Sherwood Hall property in the 1840s. He moved his family of 10 from Georgia to San Antonio, Texas, in 1845. Wilson wrote in the domestic sentimental style of the Victorian Age. Critics have praised the intellectual competence of her female characters, but as her heroes eventually succumb to traditional values, Evans has been described as an antifeminist. Of St. Elmo one critic maintained, "the trouble with the heroine of St. Elmo was that she swallowed an unabridged dictionary." Wilson was the first American woman author to earn over $100,000. This would be a record unsurpassed until Edith Wharton.
At the Mercy of Tiberius
Author: Augusta Jane Evans
Publisher: Rose
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
A girl is falsely accused of killing her grandfather.
Publisher: Rose
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
A girl is falsely accused of killing her grandfather.
The Life and Works of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, 1835-1909
Author: Brenda Ayres
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317025571
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Over the course of her 57-year career, Augusta Jane Evans Wilson published nine best-selling novels, but her significant contributions to American literature have until recently gone largely unrecognized. Brenda Ayres, in her long overdue critical biography of the novelist once referred to as the 'first Southern woman to enter the field of American letters,' credits the importance of Wilson's novels for their portrait of nineteenth-century America. As Ayres reminds us, the nineteenth-century American book market was dominated by women writers and women readers, a fact still to some extent obscured by the make-up of the literary canon. In placing Wilson's novels firmly within their historical context, Ayres commemorates Wilson as both a storyteller and maker of American history. Proceeding chronologically, Ayres devotes a chapter to each of Wilson's novels, showing how her views on Catholicism, the South, the Civil War, male authority, domesticity, Reconstruction, and race were both informed by and resistant to the turbulent times in which she lived. This comprehensive and meticulously researched biography contributes not only to our appreciation of Wilson's work, but also to her importance as a figure for understanding women's roles in history and their art, evolving gender roles, and the complicated status of women writers.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317025571
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Over the course of her 57-year career, Augusta Jane Evans Wilson published nine best-selling novels, but her significant contributions to American literature have until recently gone largely unrecognized. Brenda Ayres, in her long overdue critical biography of the novelist once referred to as the 'first Southern woman to enter the field of American letters,' credits the importance of Wilson's novels for their portrait of nineteenth-century America. As Ayres reminds us, the nineteenth-century American book market was dominated by women writers and women readers, a fact still to some extent obscured by the make-up of the literary canon. In placing Wilson's novels firmly within their historical context, Ayres commemorates Wilson as both a storyteller and maker of American history. Proceeding chronologically, Ayres devotes a chapter to each of Wilson's novels, showing how her views on Catholicism, the South, the Civil War, male authority, domesticity, Reconstruction, and race were both informed by and resistant to the turbulent times in which she lived. This comprehensive and meticulously researched biography contributes not only to our appreciation of Wilson's work, but also to her importance as a figure for understanding women's roles in history and their art, evolving gender roles, and the complicated status of women writers.
American Slavery as it is
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antigua
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antigua
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Macaria
Author: Augusta Jane Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Macaria, Or, Altars of Sacrifice
Author: Augusta Jane Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
The Blind Man's Eyes
Author: William MacHarg
Publisher: New York : A.L. Burt Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher: New York : A.L. Burt Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description