1858 A GEORGIA LADY. Prose and Poetry. Confederate Poet who Inspired Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind. Eschatology The Philadelphia Prayer-Meeting Convention

The Philadelphia Prayer-Meeting Convention

then autographed by Francis Asbury

it will be quiet with no species of government

Female preachers

the struggle to achieve legal reform

1858 A GEORGIA LADY. Prose and Poetry. Confederate Poet who Inspired Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind. Eschatology The Philadelphia Prayer-Meeting ConventionA rather scarce work on the market by an influential Southern Confederate authoress, Mary Ann Harris Gay [1829 1918]. Though she would go on to become one of the most influential female authors of the Reconstruction period, the present is the first edition of her first book, which she sold door to door herself. Portions of the present work were lampooned by Twain in Tom Sawyer; he called them "pretended compositions" and compared them to the work of a