Margaret Junkin Preston

Margaret Junkin Preston (1820–1897) was an American poet and author.[1]

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Biography

She was born in Milton, Pennsylvania in 1820.[2][3] Her father was George Junkin, a Presbyterian minister and college president.[1][2][3][4][5] She learned Latin and Ancient Greek at the age of twelve.[2] She married Major John Thomas Lewis Preston in 1857,[6] a Professor of Latin at Virginia Military Institute.[1][2][3][4][5] Her sister, Eleanor (Ellie), had in 1853 married Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a colleague of Preston's at VMI.[7] Major Preston served on the staff of Stonewall Jackson during the Civil War.[8]

She wrote many volumes of prose and poetry, and published some of her writing in the Southern Literary Messenger and Graham's Magazine.[9] She also published a few articles in Harper's Magazine.[10] She is remembered for espousing the Confederacy in her poems.[5]

She became blind in the late 1880s, and died in Baltimore in 1897.[2][4]

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References

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

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