Author : Augusta Jane Evans
Publisher :
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 21,52 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Murder
ISBN :
A girl is falsely accused of killing her grandfather.
Author : Augusta Evans Wilson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 22,97 MB
Release : 2018-02-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781985199156
Augusta Jane Wilson, or Augusta Evans Wilson (May 8, 1835 - May 9, 1909), was an American author of Southern literature. She was the first woman to earn US$100,000 through her writing. Wilson was a native of Columbus, Georgia, and her first book, Inez, a Tale of the Alamo, was written when she was still young. It was published by the Harpers, but met with indifferent success. In 1859, her second book, Beulah, was issued, and it became at once popular. It was selling well when the American Civil War broke out. Cut off from the world of publishers, and intensely concerned for the cause of secession, she wrote nothing more until several years later, when she published her third story Macaria, dedicated to the soldiers of the Southern Army. This book was burned by some protesters. After the war closed, Wilson travelled to New York with the copy of St. Elmo, which was speedily published and met with great success. Her later works, Vashti; Infelice; and At the Mercy of Tiberius had phenomenal success. In 1868, she married Lorenzo Madison Wilson, of Alabama, and they resided at Spring
Author : Augusta Jane Evans
Publisher : Rose
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 37,55 MB
Release : 1887
Category : American fiction
ISBN :
A girl is falsely accused of killing her grandfather.
Author : Augusta Jane Evans
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 23,81 MB
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3734053897
Reproduction of the original: At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta Jane Evans
Author : Augusta Jane Wilson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 48,97 MB
Release : 1887
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Frank Graham Moorhead
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Autographs
ISBN :
Author : Augusta J. (Jane) Evans
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 2016-01-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781523791675
Augusta Jane Wilson, or Augusta Evans Wilson, (May 8, 1835 - May 9, 1909) was an American Southern author and one of the pillars of Southern literature.She was born Augusta Jane Evans on May 8, 1835, in Columbus, Georgia. The area of her birth was then known as Wynnton (now MidTown). As a young girl in 19th-century America she received little in the way of a formal education. However, she became a voracious reader at an early age.Her father, Matthew Evans, suffered bankruptcy and lost the family's Sherwood Hall property in the 1840s. He moved his family of 10 from Georgia to San Antonio, Texas, in 1845. Wilson wrote in the domestic sentimental style of the Victorian Age. Critics have praised the intellectual competence of her female characters, but as her heroes eventually succumb to traditional values, Evans has been described as an antifeminist. Of St. Elmo one critic maintained, "the trouble with the heroine of St. Elmo 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 Edith Wharton.
Author : Anne Sophie Riepma
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 30,49 MB
Release : 2021-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004488847
Augusta Jane Evans, a nineteenth-century writer from the American South, produced bestsellers in the genre of the domestic novel, popular between the 1820s and 1880s. Evans was particularly good in creating strong and independent heroines. She is best known for her blockbuster St. Elmo (1866), featuring the love story of Edna Earl and the passionate St. Elmo Murray. In Fire and Fiction: Augusta Jane Evans in Context Anne Sophie Riepma reconstructs the literary, cultural, religious, social, and historical contexts of Evans's work. She explores the author's relation to her times and focuses on the way her novels reflect and address the cultural experiences of Southern women. Riepma pays particular attention to topics such as the ideology of domesticity, domestic fiction, the concept of “woman's sphere,” women's role in society, middle-class culture, education and employment for women, religion, reform, political developments, and the Confederate War.
Author : Robert Fabbri
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 085789482X
One man, born in rural obscurity, destined to become one of Rome's greatest Emperors 26 AD: 16-year-old Vespasian leaves his family farm for Rome, his sights set on finding a patron and following his brother into the army, but he discovers a city in turmoil and an Empire on the brink. The aging emperor Tiberius is in seclusion on Capri, leaving Rome in the iron grip of Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian Guard. Sejanus is ruler of the Empire in all but name, but many fear that isn't enough for him. Sejanus' spies are everywhere—careless words at a dinner party can be as dangerous as a barbarian arrow. Vespasian is totally out of his depth, making dangerous enemies (and even more dangerous friends—like the young Caligula) and soon finds himself ensnared in a conspiracy against Tiberius. With the situation in Rome deteriorating, Vespasian flees the city to take up a position as tribune in an unfashionable legion on the Balkan frontier. Even here, rebellion is in the air and unblooded and inexperienced, Vespasian must lead his men in savage battle with hostile mountain tribes. Vespasian will soon realize that he can't escape Roman politics any more than he can escape his destiny.
Author : Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
Publisher :
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 1888
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ISBN :
