Timeline
Lifetime:
1835 -
1909
Passed: ≈
115 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Augusta Jane Evans
Books by Augusta Jane Evans
St. Elmo
Romance
Fiction
Drama
Novel
19th century
Love
Morality
Beauty
Religion
Redemption
Romance
Mythology
Social Class
Passion
Cynicism
Southern Literature
St. Elmo, by Augusta Jane Evans, is a sweeping romance novel set in the antebellum South. It tells the story of Edna, a beautiful and virtuous young woman, and St. Elmo, a cynical and worldly man, their love story unfolding against the backdrop of so...