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Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1835-1909) was one of nineteenth-century
America's most popular novelists and outspoken supporters of the
Confederacy. Her nine novels include the recently reissued Beulah,
the stridently pro-Confederate Macaria, and the extremely
successful St. Elmo, which rivaled Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur in
sales. In addition to writing best-selling books, Wilson was a
powerful letter-writer whose correspondents included prominent
Confederate leaders. Wilson's epistles, 112 of which are gathered
in this volume, reveal the depth of her ambitions for herself and
the Confederacy. Wilson worked hard to place herself at the center
of action during the Civil War and after the surrender assiduously
maintained her correspondence with prominent people of her day. In
addition to writing Confederate propaganda, her wartime activities
included an extended correspondence with General P. G. T.
Beauregard and Confederate congressman Jabez L. M. Curry. In her
letters Wilson reviews battle plans and military policy, offers
political advice, and illumines the hardships suffered by
southerners. Her correspondence portrays her as an assertive,
well-educated woman who addressed powerful men on equal terms and
only occasionally lapsed into traditional feminine deference. Of
equal interest, the volume includes Wilson's writings to friends,
publishers, fans, and family members. Wilson's working
correspondence with her editors and myriad admirers captures her
views on the purposes of fiction, the trials of publishing during
the war, and the difficulties of combining career and family.
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