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Augusta Jane Evans

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
Novelist
Died
May 9, 1909
Zodiac
Taurus
Born in
Columbus GA
About
A nineteenth-century southern writer, she published nine novels, including Inez (1850), Beulah (1859), Macaria (1863), St. Elmo (1866), and Vashti (1869). She is known for her sentimental, Victorian literary style and for the domestic themes of her works.
Family
She was engaged to James Reed Spalding, but broke off the engagement because Spalding had Union sympathies. She married Confederate veteran Lorenzo Madison Wilson in 1868.

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