- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
- Creator:
- Courtesy of State Archives of Alabama
- Date of Original:
- 1835/1909
- Subject:
- Literature
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:
- Augusta Jane Evans Wilson wrote nine novels 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.
Photograph of Augusta Jane Evans (Wilson). She wears a dark dress with a high collar. She faces left.
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/macaria/m-526/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Alabama Department of Archives and History.
- Original Collection:
- Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, Macaria, Literature
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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