Augusta Jane Evans

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Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, (1835-1835 – May 9, 1909), was an American author and a South patriot.

Inez, a Tale of the Alamo, was the first woman to earn US$100,000 through writing by writing.

Harpers published it, but it met with indifferent success.

Beulah, her second book, was published in 1859 and became extremely popular, and it was still selling well when the American Civil War came out.

Cut off from the world of publishers and acutely concerned about the causes of secession, she wrote nothing more until three years later, when she published Macaria, a salute to the soldiers of the Southern Army.

Some demonstrators burned this book.

Wilson returned to New York with a copy of St. Elmo, which was quickly distributed and met with a lot of success after the war was over.

Vashti; Infelice; and At the Mercy of Tiberius were two of her later works.

Lorenzo Wilson Wilson, of Alabama, married her in 1868, and they lived at Spring Hill.

Early years

Augusta Jane Evans was born in Columbus, Georgia, on May 8, 1835, and she was the eldest child of the family. Shennton then known as Wynnton (now Midtown). Sarah S. Howard Howard, her mother, and her father, Matthew R. Evans, were married. She was a descendant on her mother's side from Howards, one of Georgia's most educated families. She received little in the way of a formal education as a young child in 19th-century America. Despite this, she became a voracious reader at an early age.

In the 1840s, her father pleaded bankruptcy and lost the family's Sherwood Hall home. He moved his family of ten from Georgia to Alabama, and Augusta was barely ten when they migrated to San Antonio, Texas, in 1845. There were no universities of any importance when the Mexican–American War came to an end and everything was in a disorganized state. Evans would not have had her mother not been nurtured and literary, and she may not have obtained the education that prepared her for the career she later achieved. San Antonio, the rendezvous for the US troops sent to support General Zachary Taylor, the military music, and the dramatic, enchanting scenery surrounding San Antonio, made an excellent subject for Evans' first book. In 1850, she wrote Inez: A Tale of the Alamo, a sentimental, moralistic, anti-Catholic love tale. It took the story of an orphanage's spiritual journey from religious skepticism to devout faith. In 1854, she gave the manuscript to her father as a Christmas gift. In 1855, it was first published anonymously.

However, life in a frontier border town like San Antonio, especially during the Mexican–American War, was volatile. Evans' parents immigrated to Mobile, Alabama, 1849. Beulah, her next book, was published in 1859; she wrote it at the age of 18. In her books, Beulah introduced the theme of female education. During the first year of its introduction, it sold over 22,000 copies. It was established that she was Alabama's first published author. Her family bought Georgia Cottage on Springhill Avenue from her literary earnings.

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Career

Evans, a staunch supporter of the South, after most of the Southern states declared their independence and seceded from the Union. When she traveled to visit them in Virginia, her brothers were fired by Union soldiers from Fort Monroe, and she was saluted by them.

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At every meal, I wished for a Secession flag to shake defiantly in their teeth. "I was keen to touch off a red-hot ball in response to their chivalric civilities," she wrote to a friend. She became a propagandist during the subsequent Civil War. James Reed Spalding, a New York reporter, married Evans. But she pulled out of the event in 1860 because she endorsed Abraham Lincoln. At Fort Morgan on Mobile Bay, she cared for sick and injured Confederate troops. At Chickamauga, Evans also visited Confederate soldiers. She sewned sandbags for the protection of the community, wrote patriotic addresses, and opened a hospital near her house. Local fans dubbed Camp Beulah in honor of her book. She also interacted with General P.G.T. Beau Beaucourt de Beauchamphé 1862.

Evans was turned off from her publishers for many years before embarking on her third book Macaria, which she later said was published by candlelight while caring for wounded Confederates. The book is about Southern women making the ultimate sacrifice for the Confederacy; it promoted national interest in a national culture and represented Southern values at a time when they were not. Through the blockade, she sent a copy of this book as a letter from the publisher. It was surprisingly carried to Havana and thence to New York City. The book had already been published in Richmond, Virginia, by a bookseller, and it had been printed in South Carolina. It was accepted by the Confederate States of America and was dedicated to the Southern army's troops. Although sitting down with the wounded soldiers in "Camp Beulah" near Mobile, some portions of the manuscript were traced in pencil. Any copy of the Confederate version of Macaria, which he could lay his hands on, was confiscated and burned by a federal officer in Kentucky. A Northern publisher obtained a copy and released it, but said he would not pay no royalty to so "arch a rebel." J. e gypt J. B. Lippincott & J.C. Derby refused to work with him, but the author has since agreed to a deal in which the author will get a set amount on every copy sold. GE Henry Thomas, the Union Army's commander, confiscated copies and had the books burned.

Evans travelled to New York to read the manuscript of her most ambitious attempt, St. Elmo (1866), after the Civil War was finished. "El Dorado," Mary Howard Jones, Aunt of Colonel Seaborn Jones, ended the famous book at her aunt's house. The general setting in St. Elmo, if not the particulars, appears to be El Dorado of Jones. The home was purchased by Captain and Mrs. James Slade in 1878, who changed its name to St. Elmo in honor of the novel which it had inspired. In less than four months, St. Elmo sold a million copies in a matter of four months. It featured sexual struggle between the protagonist St. Elmo, who was cynical, and the heroine Edna Earl, who was beautiful and devout. It became one of the nineteenth century's most popular books. After it, towns, hotels, steamboats, and plantations had been established, and the author was recompensed with high financial returns. The book's "high flown" language, as well as the rare literary achievements of the little barefoot heroine, sparked intense criticism, and some one even attempted to parody "St. Twelvemo"; but none of this could have an effect on the book's success. People were eager for her next assignment, and people were keen to hear that another would be soon. Soon after Vashti was announced, she married Confederate veteran Colonel Lorenzo Wilson, becoming Augusta Evans Wilson. He was 27 years old at the time. Colonel Wilson made a fortune out of banking, railroads, and wholesale groceries. They settled in Ashland, a columned house, not far from her house in Georgia Cottage. The two couples married at St. Francis Street Methodist Church in St. Francis Street, Missouri. Wilson became the first lady of Mobile society, replacing supplanting Madame Le Vert, who had fallen into social disfavor for welcoming the Federal occupation of Mobile too warmly. Lorenzo's fragile health meant she was reluctant to write, so she stopped contributing to it and concentrated on decorating her house and grounds. Colonel Wilson died in 1892.

She was invited to contribute to journals and newspapers again by time and season, but she declined. Not even a suggestion to encourage her to name her own price for a serial would tempt her. One publisher charged US$25,000 if they would only allow them to publish her books in "paperback" form rather than infesting with her library-bound editions, but this permission was never granted. Before it ever went to press, she was paid US$15,000 for Vashti. Infelice and At the Mercy of Tiberius were elapsed ten years ago. Devota and A Speckled Eagle followed later in life.

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