Julia Pleasants Creswell | |
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| Born | Julia Pamelia Pleasants August 21, 1827 Huntsville, Alabama, U.S. |
| Died | June 9, 1886 (aged 58) |
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| Occupation | Writer |
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David Creswell (m. 1854) |
| Children | 8 |
| Parents | James J. Pleasants |
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Julia Pleasants Creswell (née Julia Pamelia Pleasants; pen names, Adrienne[1] and Amelia;[2] August 21, 1827 – June 9, 1886) was a poet and novelist of Southern United States literature who lived in Alabama and Louisiana.[3] She was author of Aphelia, and Other Poems by Two Cousins of the South, in conjunction with Thomas M. Bibb Bradley, of Huntsville, published in 1854; Poems; Callamura, an allegorical novel, published 1868; posthumous volume of poems; Abracadabra, a novel which was never published; and a book of short poems which she had ready for publication but never published, dedicated to George D. Prentice in appreciation of his devotion to Southern literature.[4][5]
- ^ Cushing 1885, p. 398.
- ^ Rayne 1893, p. 333.
- ^ Wilson & Fiske 1898, p. 8.
- ^ Owen 1921, p. 424.
- ^ Fleming 1909, p. 237.