CHAPTER III.
The sweet-tongued convent bell had rung the Angelas,
and all within the cloistered courts was hushed, save
the low monologue of the fountain whose minor murmuring
made solemn accord with ...
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One of the best-known novelists of the South in the late nineteenth century, Augusta Jane Evans (later Wilson) became little more than a literary footnote in the twentieth. Her most influential novel,...
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Once highly regarded by the general public, particularly girls and women, and disliked intensely by many literary critics, Augusta Jane Evans Wilson's books have not worn well, but they unquestionably...
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