My Roses: The Romance of a June Day - Couverture souple

French, L. Virginia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1947514520 ISBN 13 : 9781947514522

Editeur : St. Clair Publicaations, 2022

Synopsis

Lucy Virginia French, (nee Smith) March 16, 1825 – March 31, 1881) was a 19th - century American author. Her blank verse was considered especially strong, and her themes were well chosen.
French belonged to a cultured and wealthy Virginia family. Her mother was a relative of Gov. Henry A. Wise, and her father served at one time as the president of Washington College, now Washington and Lee University. Her maternal grandfather was the famous Revolutionary War Colonel, Thomas “Fighting Tom” Parker.
Named for her birth state, she was educated at Washington, Pennsylvania. She moved shortly thereafter to Memphis, Tennessee where she lived until her marriage in 1853, to Col. John Hopkins French, living after this at "Forest Home," near McMinnville, Tennessee, the homestead of the French family.
Her first volume of poems, "Wind Whispers," appeared in 1856. She wrote "Tecumseh's Foot," "The Great River," "The Lyre of Time," "The Palmetto and the Pine," "The Years," "Mammy," "Liberty Bells," and other poems, besides several novels and dramas. She took a keen interest in the political questions of the day and wrote about them.
This novel, "My Roses," set in New Orleans, was her first. Her love of the French language is evident throughout. It was published in 1872, and her last one, "Darlingtonia," in 1879. Between the years 1856 and 1879, she was actively engaged as literary editor of a number of magazines and newspapers. She wrote under the name L'Inconnue (the unknown). Among her friends were James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., John Greenleaf Whittier, and William Cullen Bryant.
This book was written in McMinnville. A historical marker stands on West Main Street, near her former home. She died at her home in McMinnville at 56 years of age and is interned in Riverside Cemetery where a prodigious stone marks her final resting place.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: St. Clair Publicaations
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1947514520
• ISBN 13: 9781947514522
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: St. Clair Spencer
• Nombre de pages: 290
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