Margaret Junkin Preston

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, Elinor (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

References

  1. ↑ New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors
  2. 1 2 3 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill biography
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 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
  4. 1 2 3 Southern Life in Southern Literature, Maurice Garland Fulton (ed.), Kessinger Publishing, 2003, p. 268
  5. 1 2 3 Charles William Hubner, Representative Southern Poets, BiblioLife, 2008, p. 147
  6. 1 2 3 The University of South Carolina Press
  7. ↑ http://www.frontierfamilies.net/family/junkin/family/D1MJ.htm
  8. ↑ http://www.frontierfamilies.net/family/junkin/family/D4EJ.htm
  9. ↑ http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/p/Preston,Margaret_Junkin.html
  10. ↑ Book review
  11. ↑ Harper's Magazine

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