- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
- Creator:
- From Prominent Women of Georgia, edited by J. B. Nevin
- Publisher:
- Nevin, James Banks. Prominent Women of Georgia. Atlanta, Ga.: National Biographical Publishers, 1928.
- Date of Original:
- 1928
- Subject:
- Women--Alabama--Mobile
Literature
Brooches
Cameos
Caps (Headgear)
Authors, American--Alabama--Mobile
Women authors, American--Alabama--Mobile
Novelists, American--Alabama--Mobile
Women novelists, American--Alabama--Mobile - People:
- Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane), 1835-1909
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, Mobile County, Mobile, 30.69436, -88.04305
- Medium:
- images (object genre)
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- In 1868 Augusta Jane Evans married Colonel Lorenzo Madison Wilson, a wealthy planter twenty-eight years her senior who had been widowed in 1862. She moved to his estate, Ashland, next door to the Evans home and spent much of the rest of her life making it and its surrounding gardens one of Mobile, Alabama's most beautiful showplaces.
Image of a drawing of Augusta Jane Evans (Wilson). She is depicted wearing a dark dress, a cameo brooch, and a white cap over her upswept hair. She faces toward the right.
Evans wrote nine novels about southern women that were among the most popular fiction in nineteenth-century America. Her most successful novel, St. Elmo (1866), sold a million copies within four months of its appearance and remained in print well into the twentieth century. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/augusta-jane-evans-wilson-1835-1909/m-1637/
- Rights Holder:
- From Prominent Women of Georgia, edited by J. B. Nevin.
- Original Collection:
- Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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