Margaret Junkin Preston
Margaret Junkin Preston (May 19, 1820 – March 28, 1897)[1] was an American poet and author.[2]
Biography
She was born in Milton, Pennsylvania, in 1820.[3][4] Her father was George Junkin, a Presbyterian minister and college president.[2][3][4][5][6] She learned Latin and Ancient Greek at the age of twelve.[3] She married Major John Thomas Lewis Preston in 1857,[7] a professor of Latin at Virginia Military Institute.[2][3][4][5][6] Her sister, Eleanor (Ellie), had in 1853 married Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a colleague of Preston's at VMI.[8] Major Preston served on the staff of Stonewall Jackson during the Civil War.[9]
She wrote many volumes of prose and poetry, and published some of her writing in the Southern Literary Messenger and Graham's Magazine.[10] She also published a few articles in Harper's Magazine.[11] She is remembered for espousing the Confederacy in her poems.[6]
She became blind in the late 1880s, and died in Baltimore in 1897.[3][5]
Bibliography
- Silverwood, a Book of Memories (1856) at Internet Archive
- Beechenbrook: A Rhyme of War' (1865)
- Old Song and New (1870)
- Cartoons (1875)
- Centennial Poem for Washington and Lee University: Lexington, Virginia, 1775-1885 (1885)
- A Handful of Monographs: Continental and English (1886)
- For Love's Sake: Poems of Faith and Comfort (1886)
- Colonial Ballads, Sonnets and Other Verse (1887)
- Semi-Centennial Ode for the Virginia Military Institute: Lexington, Virginia, 1839-1889 (1889)
- Aunt Dorothy: An Old Virginia Plantation Story (1890)
References
- ^ New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors
- ^ a b c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill biography
- ^ a b c d e Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary (Southern Literary Studies), Robert Bain (ed.), Jr. Louis D. Rubin (ed.), Joseph M. Flora (ed.), Louisiana State University Press, 1979, pp.365-366 [1]
- ^ a b c Southern Life in Southern Literature, Maurice Garland Fulton (ed.), Kessinger Publishing, 2003, p. 268 [2]
- ^ a b c Charles William Hubner, Representative Southern Poets, BiblioLife, 2008, p. 147 [3]
- ^ a b c The University of South Carolina Press
- ^ http://www.frontierfamilies.net/family/junkin/family/D1MJ.htm
- ^ http://www.frontierfamilies.net/family/junkin/family/D4EJ.htm
- ^ http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/p/Preston,Margaret_Junkin.html
- ^ Book review
- ^ Harper's Magazine
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