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Beulah (Library of Southern Civilization)

1 review
Augusta Jane Evans

Louisiana State University Press, 1992

A woman unwilling to submit
This novel is about Beulah, a woman who despite her chances to have a "perfect" life refuses to submit to convention. Much of the book focuses on philosophy as a justification for her position and at other times a condemnation of her actions. A wonderful read for the deep thinker. Definitely not beach reading....

Macaria: Or, Altars of Sacrifice (Library of Southern Civilization)

1 review
Augusta Jane Evans

Louisiana State University Press, 1992

Valueable Example of Confederate Propaganda
When I discovered Drew Gilpin Faust's edition of Augusta evans's novel, _Macaria; or Altars of Sacrifice_ while working on a college research paper, I was excited to find an example of the writing of a woman I had read brief mentions of in various books and an example of fiction published in the South during the Civil War. Although Evans's writing is flawed, as was pointed out even during her ...

St. Elmo: A Novel (Popular Culture in America)
Augusta Jane Evans Wilson

Ayer Co Pub, 1974

1866. Wilson has been called the foremost Southern novelist of her time. She wrote nine books of which St. Elmo is her most well-known. The book begins: He stood and measured the earth; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow. These words of the prophet upon Shigionoth were sung by a sweet, happy, childish voice, and to a strange, wild, anomalous tune-solemn as the Hebrew chant of Deborah, and fully as ...

A Southern Woman of Letters: The Correspondence of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (Women's Diaries and Letters of ...
Augusta Jane Evans

University of South Carolina Press, 2002

Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1835?1909) was one of nineteenth-century America's most popular novelists and outspoken supporters of the Confederacy. Her nine novels include the recently reissued Beulah, the stridently pro-Confederate Macaria, and the extremely successful St. Elmo, which had sales rivaling those of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur. In addition to writing best-selling books, Wilson was a powerful letter-writer whose correspondents ...

St. Elmo

8 reviews
Augusta Jane Evans

Buccaneer Books, 1980

Classic Victorian Novel
This classic Victorian novel popular in its time is a fine example of descriptive writing at its best. It will entertain as well as educate the most prolific of readers with references to world-wide geographic locations, foreign phraseology, and descriptive paragraphs that are refreshing different to 21st century reading. A tale of romance and intrigue woven with Christian morality will ...

Infelice
Augusta Jane Evans Wilson

BiblioBazaar, 2007

As Hannah left the room Mrs. Lindsay rose and added two sticks of oak wood to the mass of coals that glowed between the shining brass andirons; then carefully removed farther from the flame on the hearth a silver teapot and covered dish which contained the pastor's supper.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)

Infelice
Jane Evans Augusta Wilson

IndyPublish.com, 2006

InezA Tale of the Alamo

Public Domain Books, 2005

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Inez: A Tale Of The Alamo (1864)
Augusta Jane Evans

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008

Late nineteenth century novel by Augusta Jane Evans, Mrs Wilson, who was an American novelist, born in Columbus, Georgia.