St. Elmo: Or, Saved at LastSt. Elmo was the most famed and beloved novel by Augusta Jane Evans, a June 2015 inductee into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. First published in 1866, Evans’s rich tale of the relationship between the dashing and worldly St. Elmo and Edna Earl, an exemplar of virtuous Southern womanhood, sold over a million copies in four months and became one of the nineteenth century’s most influential novels. This edition includes an introduction by Evans scholar Diane Roberts about the enduring relevance and legacy of St. Elmo as a work of literature as well as a reflection of gender roles and the seismic societal changes taking place in the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War. |
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Page 168
... memory ? You quoted it for me a few days ago , and said that you had committed it to memory because it was such a glowing tribute to the intellectual capacity of woman . My dear , I wish you would repeat it now ; I should like to hear ...
... memory ? You quoted it for me a few days ago , and said that you had committed it to memory because it was such a glowing tribute to the intellectual capacity of woman . My dear , I wish you would repeat it now ; I should like to hear ...
Page 311
... memory flew back to the early years when his own wife Mary had sung those songs in that room , and his dead darlings clustered eagerly around the piano to listen to their mother's music . Five fair - browed , innocent young faces ...
... memory flew back to the early years when his own wife Mary had sung those songs in that room , and his dead darlings clustered eagerly around the piano to listen to their mother's music . Five fair - browed , innocent young faces ...
Page 319
... Memory " : 66 Memory makes her influence known By sighs , and tears , and grief alone . I greet her as the fiend , to whom belong The vulture's ravening beak , the raven's funeral song She tells of time misspent , of comfort lost , Of ...
... Memory " : 66 Memory makes her influence known By sighs , and tears , and grief alone . I greet her as the fiend , to whom belong The vulture's ravening beak , the raven's funeral song She tells of time misspent , of comfort lost , Of ...
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