Margaret Junkin Preston, Poet of the Confederacy: A Literary Life

Margaret Junkin Preston (1820-1897) was once deemed by the Washington Post to be "one of the really famous American authors of the day." A prolific author of poetry and fiction, she came to popular acceptance despite masculine disapproval of female writers, especially in the South. In this comprehensive literary biography Stacey Jean Klein maps the progress by which this Pennsylvania native became a celebrated poet of the Confederacy and eventually an established author of national prominence.