Life and Works of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, 1835-1909

Over the course of her 57-year career, Augusta Jane Evans Wilson published nine best-selling novels, but her significant contributions to American literature have until recently gone largely unrecognized. Brenda Ayres, in her long overdue critical biography of the novelist once referred to as the ''first Southern woman to enter the field of American letters,'' credits the importance of Wilson''s n...