Augusta Wilson

Augusta Jane Wilson (née Evans; May 8, 1835 – May 9, 1909), was an American author of Southern literature and a supporter of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Her books were banned by the American Library Association in 1881. She was the first woman to earn US$100,000 through her writing.

Quotes

• Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.
  • Beulah (ed. 1860), ch. 2

• Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.
  • Beulah (ed. 1860), ch. 13

• If a man’s innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influence in the universe would not avail. Man’s will, like woman’s, is stronger than his affection, and once subjugated by vice, all external influence will be futile.
  • Beulah (ed. 1860), ch. 21

• Oh! what a luxury it is to weep,
  And find in tears a sad relief!
  • Inez: A Tale of the Alamo (ed. 1874), ch. 33

• It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins.
  • St. Elmo (ed. 1896), ch. 29

• Those who even slightly understand my character, must know that I have always been too utterly indifferent to, too unfortunately contemptuous of public opinion, to stoop to any deception in order to conciliate it.
  • St. Elmo (ed. 1896), ch. 35

• The only wards I ever knew happen to be fictitious characters.
  • Vashti (ed. 1878), ch. 10

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Augusta Wilson

• Rosalie Maggio, "Augusta J. Evans", Quotations by Women