Nelly Marshall

Nelly Marshall was a 19th-century American "southland" author of novels and verse. In her day, Marshall was perhaps one of the most popular writers in the South and West. In her first ten years of writing, she probably wrote more than any woman of her age in the United States. In addition to numerous poems and magazine articles, she published two volumes of verse, entitled A Bunch of Violets, and Leaves From the Book of My Heart. Her novels included Eleanor Morton, or Life in Dixie (1865); Sodom Apples (1866); Fireside Gleamings (1866); Dead Under the Roses (1867); Wearing the Cross (1868); As by Fire (1869); Passion, or Bartered and Sold (1876); and A Criminal Through Love (1882).

Elizabeth Orpha Sampson Hoyt

Elizabeth O. Sampson Hoyt was an American philosopher, author, and lecturer. She served as Vice President of the Universal Peace Union and Chair of the "National University Committee of Four Hundred

Martha A. Boughton

Martha A. Boughton was an American educator, author, poet, and clubwoman. She wrote biographies as well as religious music and lyrics

Harriet Newell Ralston

Harriet Newell Ralston was an American poet. Her best work was her poem, "Columbus and Isabella — The Immortals

Mary L. Moreland

Mary L. Moreland was an American Congregational minister as well as a teacher and a writer

Martha Pearson Smith

Martha Pearson Smith was an American poet and musician. She made significant contributions in secular and sacred verse. One of her best songs was "Jennie and I", which was set to music by Prof. T. M. Towne. She was a champion of the cause of temperance

Jane T. H. Cross

Jane T. H. Cross was an American author. She was, for some years, an occasional contributor of prose and poetry to the religious journals of the South. She wrote a series of stories for children, which were collected and edited by Dr. Summers, and

Grace A. Oliver

Grace A. Oliver was a 19th-century American author, litterateur, and advocate for women's rights. She was characterized as a woman of rare executive ability, a good speaker, and was noted for her charity work

Emily Gillmore Alden

Emily Gillmore Alden was an American author and educator. For forty years, Alden was a member of the faculty of Monticello Seminary, and for nearly fifty years, the poet of the school. Alden wrote the commencement day poems for Monticello every year since

Margaret Hunt Brisbane

Margaret Hunt Brisbane was an American poet of the Confederacy. She was also a magazine writer of national repute, and a popular contributor to New Orleans newspapers. A native of Vicksburg, Mississippi, she came from a literary family. She was married in

Andrei Simonov

Andrei Dmitrievich Simonov was a Russian Armed Forces major general serving as Chief of the Electronic Warfare Troops of the 2nd Army of the Western Military District