Elizabeth Willisson Stephen

Elizabeth Willisson Stephen
"A Woman of the Century"
BornElizabeth Octavia Willisson
March 21, 1856
Marengo County, Alabama, U.S.
DiedDecember 19, 1925 (aged 69)
Pen name
  • Mrs. J. M. Winton
  • several, unknown
Occupationauthor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Genre
  • novel
  • poetry
  • prose
Notable worksThe Confessions of Two
Spouse
William Oscar Stephen
(m. 1888)
Children2

Elizabeth Willisson Stephen (March 21, 1856 – December 19, 1925) was an American author. Since 1878, she contributed prose and poetry to the northern and southern press. Her poem, "Mine", published in the Gulf Citizen, was characterized as classic in its treatment.[1] With her mother, she was the co-author of The Confessions of Two, a novel.[2]

  1. ^ "Meritorious Mobile Maids and Matrons". The Times-Picayune. New Orleans, Louisiana. 6 November 1893. p. 10. Retrieved 14 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ Herringshaw 1914, p. 327.

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