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and the author was recompensed with large financial returns. The "high flown" language in which it was written, and the rare literary attainments of the little barefoot heroine drew forth severe criticism, and some one even ventured on a parody, "St. Twelvemo"; but all this could not affect the popularity of the book. People were eager for her next work, and after
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was her most famous and it was frequently adapted for both the stage and screen and perhaps the most controversial. It was about the independence of women: although women did not need men, and could achieve independence, they also could save men from their tendency to apostasy. The novel inspired the
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sold a million copies within four months. It featured sexual tension between the protagonist St. Elmo, who was cynical, and the heroine Edna Earl, who was beautiful and devout. It became one of the most popular novels of the 19th century. Towns, hotels, steamboats and plantations were named after it,
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who had fallen into social disfavor for having welcomed the Federal occupation of Mobile too warmly. Because of her delicate health, Lorenzo objected seriously to her writing, and at his request, she discontinued it and devoted herself to decorating her home and grounds. Colonel Wilson died in 1892.
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was published, in 1868, she married Confederate veteran Colonel Lorenzo Madison Wilson, becoming Augusta Evans Wilson. He was 27 years her senior. Colonel Wilson acquired wealth in banking, railroads, and wholesale groceries. Not far from her home at Georgia Cottage, they settled in a columned house
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as a silent film and a 1950s film showing how its story might have been told at a time when Eudora Welty, William Faulkner and Tennessee Williams were the face of Southern fiction. Interviews from the film as well as photographs and other exhibits have been collected in an online 'museum' on Wilson
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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. She was inducted into the
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began the theme of female education in her novels. It sold over 22,000 copies during its first year of publication and established her as Alabama's first professional author. Her family used the proceeds from her literary success to purchase
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love story. It told the story of one orphan's spiritual journey from religious skepticism to devout faith. She presented the manuscript to her father as a Christmas gift in 1854. It was published anonymously in 1855.
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Time and time again flattering offers came for her to contribute to magazines and papers, but she refused. Not even a proposition to let her name her own price for a serial could tempt her. One publisher offered
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Southern Literature from 1579–1895: A Comprehensive Review, with Copions Extracts and Criticisms. For the Use of Schools and the General Reader, Containing an Appendix with a Full List of Southern Authors
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Wilson had become wealthy through her marriage and her literary earnings and retired from writing during her final years. She died of a heart attack in Mobile on May 9, 1909, and is buried in Mobile's
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for the defense of the community, wrote patriotic addresses, and set up a hospital near her residence. The hospital was dubbed Camp Beulah in honor of her novel. She also corresponded with General
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the general setting, if not the specific details, seems to be the Jones's El Dorado. In 1878, the home was purchased by Captain and Mrs. James J. Slade who changed its name to
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The beauty and purity of Christian truth she coins from the crucible in which her mystic alchemy is cast. She never wavers in the sacred faith of a pure and true religion.
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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
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ended, Evans was educated by her mother. During the Mexican war, San Antonio was the rendezvous for the United States troops sent to assist General
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which he could find. A Northern publisher reportedly obtained a copy and published it, but swore he would pay no royalties to so "arch a rebel."
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Her father suffered bankruptcy and lost the family's Sherwood Hall property in the 1840s. He moved his family of ten from Georgia to
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Bogard, Robert, "Amelia Barr, Augusta Evans Wilson, and the Sentimental Novel, MARAB, Vol 2, No. 1 (Winter 1965–66), pp. 13–25.
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in Mobile. The couple attended St. Francis Street Methodist Church. Wilson became the first lady of Mobile society, supplanting
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Staff report (May 25, 2015). "Rick Bragg, Harper Lee will be among Alabama Writers' Forum's inductees". Tuscaloosa News.
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Her books were banned by the American Library Association in 1881: "by reason of sensation or immoral qualities".
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naming of towns, hotels, steamboats, and a cigar brand. The book's heroine, Edna Earl, became the namesake of
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expostulated with him, and finally secured a contract by which the author would receive royalties. General
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The Civil War cut Evans off from her publishers, so it was many years before she published her third novel
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in 1977 and was one of twelve inaugural inductees to the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame on June 8, 2015.
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After the Civil War ended, Evans went to New York to take the manuscript of her most ambitious effort,
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journalist named James Reed Spalding, but broke off the engagement in 1860, because Spalding supported
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appeared, could not rest satisfied until they heard that another would soon be given them. Soon after
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AL.com: New film on Augusta Evans Wilson, Mobile literary star from another era, gets free premiere
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was produced by Alabama filmmaker Robert Clem in 2016, the 150th anniversary of the publication of
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were also popular. In 1868, she married Lorenzo Madison Wilson, of Alabama, and they resided at
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Augusta Evans Wilson papers, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, University of Alabama
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American Authors: A Hand-book of American Literature from Early Colonial to Living Writers
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Willard & Livermore (1893) record her maiden name as August C. Evans.
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Wilson's style was severely criticized as "pedantic." She wrote in the
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Nineteenth-Century American Women's Novels: Interpretative Strategies
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published in 1954. The novel also inspired a parody of itself called
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The film combines documentary interviews and dramatized scenes from
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The Yellowhammer War: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama
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Willard & Livermore (1893) record her year of birth as 1856.
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Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893).
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Evans; May 8, 1835 – May 9, 1909), was an American author of
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if she would only allow them to publish her books in cheap "
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seized and burned every copy of the Confederate edition of
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at every fire! And my fingers fairly itched to touch off a
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The Life and Works of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, 1835–1909
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The Life and Works of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, 1835–1909
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Augusta Jane Evans was born on May 8, 1835, in Columbus,
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The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865–1895
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People of Georgia (U.S. state) in the American Civil War
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St. Twel'mo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga
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one critic maintained, "the trouble with the heroine of
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before it ever went to press. Ten years elapsed between
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History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography
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Augusta J.E. Wilson article, Encyclopedia of Alabama
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The Woman's Story: As Told by Twenty American Women
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She was the first woman to earn 1021: 873: 345:and, when she traveled to visit them in 814: 786: 307:, at age 18; it was published in 1859. 1398:Works by or about Augusta Evans Wilson 1303:. Cambridge University Press Archive. 1187: 1177: 1009: 958: 946:National Register of Historic Places, 683:A film and website on Wilson entitled 1389:Works by or about Augusta Jane Wilson 997: 861: 824: 179: 7: 1321:Noe, Kenneth W. (January 10, 2014). 2755:Novelists from Georgia (U.S. state) 2715:20th-century American women writers 2705:19th-century American women writers 907: 223:, dedicated to the soldiers of the 1209:Rutherford, Mildred Lewis (1894). 626:'s heroine (Edna Earle Ponder) in 25: 1297:Harris, Susan K. (May 25, 1990). 291:, a sentimental, moralistic, and 1874:Mary Elizabeth Phillips Thompson 1380:Works by or about Augusta Wilson 1372: 1219: 1198: 1157: 1126: 1122:(Public domain ed.). 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She wrote her next novel, 198:American Library Association 2049:Elizabeth Burford Bashinsky 1636:Annie Rowan Forney Daugette 1371:(public domain audiobooks) 1356:Works by Augusta Jane Evans 685:The Passion of Miss Augusta 580:, sentimental style of the 491:A frame from the lost film 29:American writer (1935–1909) 2776: 1515:Margaret Murray Washington 1412:December 17, 2013, at the 837:Evans, Augusta J. 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After the 204:through her writing. 2308:Martha Crystal Myers 2282:Virginia Foster Durr 2075:Marion Walker Spidle 1965:Julia Tarrant Barron 1769:Clara Weaver Parrish 1764:Anne Mathilde Bilbro 1641:Patti Ruffner Jacobs 1022:Owen & Owen 1921 971:Homestead, Melissa. 414:P.G.T. de Beauregard 394:Confederate soldiers 371:chivalric civilities 343:3rd Alabama Regiment 278:Mexican–American War 2614:Vivian Malone Jones 2528:Jessie Welch Austin 2224:Bess Bolden Walcott 2198:Idella Jones Childs 2117:Juliet Opie Hopkins 2096:Maria Howard Weeden 1960:Anna Linton Praytor 1848:Elizabeth C. Crosby 1743:Chrysostom Moynahan 1615:Amelia Gayle Gorgas 1578:Marie Bankhead Owen 608:Altars of Sacrifice 509:), "El Dorado". In 477:George Henry Thomas 369:in answer to their 186:Southern literature 176:Augusta Jane Wilson 116:Southern literature 2661:Alice Lee (lawyer) 2454:Hazel Mansell Gore 2438:Frances C. Roberts 2433:Zora Neale Hurston 2340:Coretta Scott King 2240:Nancy Batson Crews 2028:Doris Marie Bender 1806:Blanche Evans Dean 1727:Elizabeth Johnston 1706:Ruby Pickens Tartt 1510:Agnes Ellen Harris 1041:. State of Alabama 775:Alabama literature 662: 638:Charles Henry Webb 497: 453:Richmond, Virginia 437: 329:After most of the 274:San Antonio, Texas 211:. Her first book, 194:American Civil War 57:Augusta Jane Evans 2677: 2676: 2673: 2672: 2669: 2668: 2640:Allison Wetherbee 2566: 2565: 2562: 2561: 2512:Sara Crews Finley 2352: 2351: 2348: 2347: 2177:Ida Vines Moffett 2129: 2128: 2125: 2124: 2112:Margaret H. 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Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
Evans in 1890
Columbus, Georgia
Mobile, Alabama
Magnolia Cemetery
Southern literature
St. Elmo

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Southern literature
Confederacy
American Civil War
American Library Association
Columbus, Georgia
Confederate Army
St. Elmo
Spring Hill
Georgia
MidTown
Alabama
San Antonio, Texas
Mexican–American War
Zachary Taylor
anti-Catholic
Mobile, Alabama
Georgia Cottage
Southern states
Union
Confederate States of America
3rd Alabama Regiment

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