Augusta Jane Evans (House Divided)

Sources
Evans wrote several books, including Inez: A Tale of the Alamo (1855), Beulah (1859), Macaria; or Altars of Sacrifice (1864), St. Elmo (1867), Vashti; or, Until Death Us Do Part (1869), Infelice (1875), and At the Mercy of Tiberius (1887). Other important primary sources include Rebecca Grant Sexton’s  A Southern Woman of Letters: The Correspondence of Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (2002). Some scholars have examined Evans’  novels, including William Perry Fidler’s Augusta Evans Wilson, 1835–1909: A Biography (1951), Drew Gilpin Faust’s “Altars of Sacrifice: Confederate Women and the Narratives of War,” Journal of American History (1990), and Anna Sophia Riepma’s Fire and Fiction: Augusta Jane Evans in Context (2000).  In addition, Evans has a profile at the online Encyclopedia of Alabama.

Places to Visit
Evans is buried next to her brother in Magnolia Cemetery, which is located at 1202 Virginia Street in Mobile, Alabama. This cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Images
The State Archives of Alabama has two images of Evans and one of her house.