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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]].

Nacque come Augusta Jane Evans l'8 maggio del 1835 a Wynnton (ora MidTown, Columbus), in Georgia. Come ogni giovane ragarra del diciannovesimo secolo in america, ricevette poca educazione scolastica. Comunque divenne una vorace lettrice fin da piccola. Il suo sfortunato padre, Matthew Evans, perse la ricca proprietà di famiglia di Sherwood Hall per bancarotta negli anni 1840. Si trasferì con la sua famiglia dalla Georgia a San Antonio, nel Texas nel 1845. IL tempo passato qui ispirò ad Augusta il suo primo lavoro. All'età di 15 anni scrisse "Inez: A Tale of the Alamo", una storia d'amore romantica, sentimentale, moralista anti-cattolica. Si narra la storia del viaggio spirituale di un orfano dallo scetticismo religioso alla fede fervente. La giovane Augusta regalò il romanzo al padre nel Natale del 1854. Fu pubblicato in forma anonima nel 1855.

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

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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.

When most of the Southern states declared their independence and seceded from the Union into the Confederate States of America, Augusta Evans became a staunch Southern patriot. She became active in the subsequent Civil War as a propagandist. Augusta was engaged to a New York journalist named James Reed Spalding. But she broke off the engagement in 1860 because he supported Abraham Lincoln. She nursed sick and wounded Confederate soldiers at Fort Morgan on Mobile Bay. Augusta also visited Confederate soldiers at Chickamauga. She also 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 Beauregard in 1862.