MACARIA
BY AUGUSTA, J. EVANS WILSON
FINE CONDITION
Protected in a clear, acid-free, Mylar dust jacket
Original, Sharp. Bright, Clean, Solidly Bound, Antique Book
Professionally Rebound in Handsome ¾ Leather Binding
PUBLISHED BY THE CO-OPERATIVE PUBLICATION SOCIETY, NEW YORK AND LONDON, IN 1896
IN TALL COTTON - #195
“This was the most popular novel written in the Confederacy itself.” – In Tall Cotton
Augusta Jane Evans, or Augusta Evans Wilson (May 8, 1835 – May 9, 1909), was an American author of Southern literature and a patriot of the South. She was the first woman to earn over $100,000 through her writing.
Wilson was a native of Columbus, Georgia. Her books met with considerable success. Her second book, Beulah, was issued in 1859 and became at once popular, still selling well when the American Civil War broke out. After most of the Southern states declared their independence and seceded from the Union into the Confederate States of America, Evans became a staunch Southern patriot. 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 this - her third story - Makaria.The book is dedicated to the soldiers of the Southern Army and is about Southern women making the ultimate sacrifice for the Confederacy; it promoted national desire for an independent national culture and reflected Southern values as they were at that time. The book was a propaganda masterpiece and she later claimed was written by candlelight while nursing wounded Confederates.
She nursed sick and wounded Confederate soldier at Fort Morgan at on Mobile Bay. Evans also visited Confederate soldiers at Chickamauga. She sewed sandbags for the defense of the community, wrote patriotic addresses, and set up a hospital near her residence. The hospital was dubbed Camp Beulah by local admirers in honor of her novel. She also corresponded with General P.G. T. de Beaugard in 1862.
She sent a copy of this book with a letter to the publishers through the blockade. It was carried safely to Havana, and thence to New York City. The book had already been published by a bookseller in Richmond, Virginia, and printed in South Carolina on coarse Confederate paper. It was entered according to the Confederate States of America, and dedicated to the brave soldiers of the Southern army. The book was burned by some protesters. A Federal officer in Kentucky seized and burned every copy of the Confederate edition of Macaria which he could lay his hands upon. General George Henry Thomas, commander of the Union Army in Tennessee, confiscated copies and had the books burned as well.
Given her support for the Confederate States of America from the perspective of a Southern patriot, and her literary activities during the American Civil War, she can be deemed as having contributed decisively to the literary and cultural development of the Confederacy in particular, and of the South in general.
Her brothers had joined the 3rdAlabama Regiment, and, when she traveled to visit them in Virginia, her party was fired upon by Union soldiers from Fort Monroe. "O! I longed for a Secession flag to shake defiantly in their teeth at every fire! And my fingers fairly itched to touch off a red-hot-ball in answer to their chivalric civilities", she wrote to a friend.
THIS BOOK IS IN FINE CONDITION
This original, antique book is in excellent condition; it comes in a clear, Mylar dust jacket to protect it (see photo #3). The book is handsomely presented in marbled covers and ¾ genuine leather covers as shown. This is an original, antique book professionally rebound in new, leather on the spine and corners (a $200 binding job). The exterior is clean, sharp and bright. The book has no bumping. The book has solid binding throughout; it has no looseness or lean and both hinges are fine. The interior is in excellent condition. There isn’t a mark in the book. The pages are clean and the book has no writing, smudging, foxing, stamps, pasteboards or other markings. It is not an ex-library book. An excellent condition, antique book in a clear, Mylar dust jacket to protect it.
MACARIA
BY AUGUSTA, J. EVANS WILSON FINE CONDITION
Protected in a clear, acid-free, Mylar dust jacket Original, Sharp. Bright, Clean, Solidly Bound, Antique Book
Professionally Rebound in Handsome ¾ Leather Binding PUBLISHED BY THE CO-OPERATIVE PUBLICATION SOCIETY, NEW YORK AND LONDON, IN 1896 IN TALL COTTON - #195 “This was the most popular novel written in the Confederacy itself.” – In Tall Cotton
Augusta Jane Evans, or Augusta Evans Wilson (May 8, 1835 – May 9, 1909), was an American author of Southern literature and a patriot of the South. She was the first woman to earn over $100,000 through her writing.
Wilson was a native of Columbus, Georgia. Her books met with considerable success. Her second book, Beulah, was issued in 1859 and became at once popular, still selling well when the American Civil War broke out. After most of the Southern states declared their independence and seceded from the Union into the Confederate States of America, Evans became a staunch Southern patriot. 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 this - her third story - Makaria.The book is dedicated to the soldiers of the Southern Army and is about Southern women making the ultimate sacrifice for the Confederacy; it promoted national desire for an independent national culture and reflected Southern values as they were at that time. The book was a propaganda masterpiece and she later claimed was written by candlelight while nursing wounded Confederates.
She nursed sick and wounded Confederate soldier at Fort Morgan at on Mobile Bay. Evans also visited Confederate soldiers at Chickamauga. She sewed sandbags for the defense of the community, wrote patriotic addresses, and set up a hospital near her residence. The hospital was dubbed Camp Beulah by local admirers in honor of her novel. She also corresponded with General P.G. T. de Beaugard in 1862.
She sent a copy of this book with a letter to the publishers through the blockade. It was carried safely to Havana, and thence to New York City. The book had already been published by a bookseller in Richmond, Virginia, and printed in South Carolina on coarse Confederate paper. It was entered according to the Confederate States of America, and dedicated to the brave soldiers of the Southern army. The book was burned by some protesters. A Federal officer in Kentucky seized and burned every copy of the Confederate edition of Macaria which he could lay his hands upon. General George Henry Thomas, commander of the Union Army in Tennessee, confiscated copies and had the books burned as well.
Given her support for the Confederate States of America from the perspective of a Southern patriot, and her literary activities during the American Civil War, she can be deemed as having contributed decisively to the literary and cultural development of the Confederacy in particular, and of the South in general.
Her brothers had joined the 3rdAlabama Regiment, and, when she traveled to visit them in Virginia, her party was fired upon by Union soldiers from Fort Monroe. "O! I longed for a Secession flag to shake defiantly in their teeth at every fire! And my fingers fairly itched to touch off a red-hot-ball in answer to their chivalric civilities", she wrote to a friend.
THIS BOOK IS IN FINE CONDITION This original, antique book is in excellent condition; it comes in a clear, Mylar dust jacket to protect it (see photo #3). The book is handsomely presented in marbled covers and ¾ genuine leather covers as shown. This is an original, antique book professionally rebound in new, leather on the spine and corners (a $200 binding job). The exterior is clean, sharp and bright. The book has no bumping. The book has solid binding throughout; it has no looseness or lean and both hinges are fine. The interior is in excellent condition. There isn’t a mark in the book. The pages are clean and the book has no writing, smudging, foxing, stamps, pasteboards or other markings. It is not an ex-library book. An excellent condition, antique book in a clear, Mylar dust jacket to protect it.
