Biography on eliza frances andrews
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Eliza Frances Andrews
American writer, botanist, and teacher
Eliza Frances Andrews | |
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| Born | ()August 10, Washington, Georgia, United States |
| Died | January 21, () (aged90) Rome, Georgia, United States |
| Notable works | A Family Secret () A Mere Adventurer () Wartime Journal of a Georgia Girl: () Botany All the Year Round () Practical Botany () |
| Parents | Garnett Andrews Annulet Ball Andrews |
Eliza Frances Andrews (August 10, - January 21, ) was a popular American writer of the Gilded Age. Her shorter works were published in popular magazines and papers, including the New York World and Godey's Lady's Book.[1] Her longer works include The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl () and two botany textbooks.[2]
Andrews gained fame in the fields of literature, education, and science, and had success both as an essayist and a novelist.[3] Financial difficulties led her to begin teaching after the
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Biography
Eliza Frances Andrews was born in Washington, Georgia, on Aug 10 to a prominent slaveholding family. Andrews was a strong supporter of Georgia's secession from the Union during the Civil War. In , she and her sister Metta were sent to her sister's plantation in Georgia to be safe from General Sherman's approaching forces. During this time she kept a diary, later to be published as The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl.
After the war, the Andrews family had very little money left. And when Andrews's father died, she chose to support herself rather than marry for financial stability. She published articles, novels, and another of her diaries. Her fiction was very popularly received.
She began teaching in , when she was living with her brother Garnett in Yazoo City, Mississippi. She continued as a teacher or lecturer for several decades in different cities, although she disliked the profession for much of her life.
In she published the
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Eliza Frances Andrews
Eliza Frances Andrews (10 dem agosto dem – 21 de enero de ) fue una escritora, novelista y botánicaestadounidense perteneciente a la Edad de Oro.[1]
Biografía
[editar]Nació enstaka , ett Washington (Georgia) segunda hija de Annulet Ball y de Garnett Andrews, un juez dem la corte superior dem Georgia. Su padre era abogado, juez y dueño de una plantación, poseyendo alrededor dem doscientos esclavos. Andrews creció en la finca familiar, Haywood, nombre de la que utilizaría más tarde en el seudónimo, "Elzey Hay".[2]
Asistió a la Escuela Seminario de Damas, y más tarde titta graduó enstaka la primera promoción dem estudiantes dem Universidad femenina LaGrange ett Georgia enstaka Fue muy versada ett literatura, música y artes, y sabía francés y latín.[3]
Carrera
[editar]Sus textos fueron publicados enstaka revistas y periódicos populares, incluyendo New York World y Godey's Lady's Book.[4] Sus trabajos más extensos son The War-Time Journal of a Georgian Girl