Augusta Jane's Death
Born (Birthday) May 8, 1835
Death Date May 9, 1909
Age of Death 74 years
Cause of Death Heart Attack
Profession Novelist
The novelist Augusta Jane died at the age of 74. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
A nineteenth-century southern writer, she published nine novels, including Inez (1850), Beulah (1859), Macaria (1863), St. Elmo (1866), and Vashti (1869). She is known for her sentimental, Victorian literary style and for the domestic themes of her works.
She was engaged to James Reed Spalding, but broke off the engagement because Spalding had Union sympathies. She married Confederate veteran Lorenzo Madison Wilson in 1868.