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== Biografia ==

Scrisse nove romanzi: ''Inez: a Tale of the Alamo'' ([[1850]]), ''Beulah'' ([[1859]]), ''Macaria'' ([[1863]]), ''St. Elmo'' ([[1866]]), ''Vashti'' ([[1869]]), ''Infelice'' ([[1875]]), ''At the Mercy of Tiberius'' ([[1887]]), ''A Speckled Bird'' ([[1902]]) e ''Devota'' ([[1907]]). Il suo contributo può essere considerato decisivo allo sviluppo letterario e alla cultura della Confederazione, in particolare, e del Sud in generale, come una civiltà, supportando la [[Confederazione degli Stati d'America]] dalla propettiva di una patriota del sud, e con la sua attività letteraria durante la [[Guerra Civile Americana]].

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Nacque come Augusta Jane Evans l'8 maggio del 1835 a Wynnton (ora MidTown, Columbus), in Georgia.

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She was born Augusta Jane Evans on May 8, 1835 in Wynnton (now MidTown (Columbus, Georgia)), Georgia. As a young girl in 19th-century America she received little in the way of a formal education. However, she became a voracious reader at an early age. Her unfortunate father, Matthew Evans, lost the family's rich property of Sherwood Hall to bankruptcy in the 1840s. He moved his family of 10 from Georgia to San Antonio, Texas, in 1845.

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, as a civilization.

She was born Augusta Jane Evans on May 8, 1835 in Wynnton (now MidTown (Columbus, Georgia)), Georgia. As a young girl in 19th-century America she received little in the way of a formal education. However, she became a voracious reader at an early age. Her unfortunate father, Matthew Evans, lost the family's rich property of Sherwood Hall to bankruptcy in the 1840s. He moved his family of 10 from Georgia to San Antonio, Texas, in 1845.

Augusta’s time there would inspire her first published literary work. In 1850 at the age of 15 she wrote "Inez: A Tale of the Alamo", a sentimental, moralistic, anti-Catholic love story. It told the story of one orphan's spiritual journey from religious skepticism to devout faith. Young Augusta presented the manuscript to her father as a Christmas gift in 1854. It was published anonymously in 1855.

However, life in a frontier border town like San Antonio proved dangerous, especially with the Mexican-American War. Later Augusta’s parents moved her to Mobile, Alabama. Augusta wrote her next novel at age 18 which was called "Beulah". It was published in 1859. "Beulah" began the theme of female education in her novels. It sold well selling over 22,000 copies during its first year of publication. This was a staggering accomplishment. It established her as Alabama's first professional author. Her family used the proceeds from her literary success to purchase Georgia Cottage on Springhill Avenue.