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Two for the price of one: GLP-1 analogues, a new approach in treating severe COPD patients with diabetes
No full text: Multimorbid severe COPD patients need to be treated with a complementary systemic approach. In this way, the patient, not only the airway disease, will be treated comprehensively, as two effects (metabolic and pulmonary) are better than one. https://bit.ly/3PHoygt
Augusta Evans Wilson papers, MSS.1563
No full textAbstract: Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and a bound manuscript of the 19th-century author Augusta Evans Wilson of Mobile, Alabama.Scope and Content Note: This collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings and one manuscript of the 19th-century author Augusta Evans Wilson of Mobile, Alabama. Her personal correspondence contains original letters and photocopies, the majority written to Rachel Lyons Heustis and J. L. M. Curry, discussing life during the Civil War and Mrs. Wilson's novels. Other prominent correspondents include Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard; educator, Congressman, and Baptist minister, J.L.M. Curry; and Congressman and U.S. Consul at Leeds, Norfleet Harris.The newspaper clippings include requests by Mrs. Wilson for assistance in preserving graves and erecting monuments of the Confederate dead as well as an obituary essay she wrote at the death of her 22-month old niece and namesake, Augusta Vivian Evans. There are also several articles about her childhood home, Sherwood Hall (later renamed St. Elmo after her story) in Columbus, Georgia.The manuscript is a bound, hand-written copy of
Vashti with a note from the publisher, G. W. Carlton, written on the title page saying, "To the Printer. This Ms is to be Carefully handled and preserved. Every page of it. April 8, 1869 Carlton"Biographical/Historical Note: Augusta Jane Evans was born May 8, 1835, in Columbus, Georgia, the daughter of Matt Ryon and Sarah Skrine (Howard) Evans. She was educated in her home under the supervision of her mother. In 1839, after the bankruptcy of her father's business, the family plantation and possessions were sold at auction, and the family moved into a modest plantation house at Oswitchee in Russell County, Alabama. By early 1845, Augusta's parents made the decision to leave their troubles behind and move the family to Texas.The large Evans family eventually settled in San Antonio in 1846. It was here, at the age of fifteen, that Augusta began her first novel,
Inez: A Tale of the Alamo. In 1849, when thousands were rushing westward in search of gold, Matt Evans prepared to take his family east. The discomforts of frontier life and the numerous occasions of violence near San Antonio more than likely contributed significantly to his decision to leave Texas.After the family moved back to Alabama they settled in Mobile where Augusta finished
Inez, a sentimental, moralistic anti-Catholic love story, and presented it to her father as a Christmas present in 1854. It was published anonymously a short time later. Her second novel,
Beulah, was published in 1859 and sold over 22,000 copies during its first year of publication. For an eighteen-year-old female author, this was practically unheard of. The proceeds of the book allowed her family to purchase Georgia Cottage on Springhill Avenue in Mobile.During the Civil War, Augusta was a staunch supporter of the Confederacy and was active in the service of the South as a propagandist. She had been engaged to a journalist from New York but broke off the engagement in 1860 because he supported Abraham Lincoln. She sewed sandbags for the defense of the community and established a hospital near her residence that was dubbed Camp Beulah in honor of her novel. She also carried on a correspondence with two noted Confederate leaders, General P.G.T. Beauregard and Alabama congressman, J. L. M. Curry.During this time she published a pro-Confederate propaganda novel titled
Macaria; or Altars of Sacrifice. It was extremely popular with both Southerners and Northerners alike and was circulated among the Northern troops to cause rancor in the ranks. General George Henry Thomas, commander of the Union Army in Tennessee, had all copies of the book among the troops under his command confiscated and burned. Unbeknownst to Augusta,
Macaria was also published in the New York. The royalties from its sale were held in trust for her until after the Civil War. Augusta only learned of the royalties after the war when she accompanied her brother, Howard Evans, to New York to see a medical specialist to treat his paralyzed arm caused by a war injury. The funds allowed Augusta and her family to weather the years of Reconstruction without excessive want.Augusta published her most popular novel,
St. Elmo, in 1866. Within four months it sold over a million copies and was so popular that many towns, hotels, steamboats and even a cigar brand were named after it. Augusta Evans was the first American woman writer to make over $100,000, a record that would not be surpassed until Edith Wharton did it several years later.On December 3, 1868, Augusta married Colonel Lorenzo Madison Wilson, a widowed Mobile business man, twenty-seven years her senior. She moved her favorite writing desk to Ashland, his home in Spring Hill, Mobile County, Alabama, virtually next door to the Evans's family home, Georgia Cottage. She continued writing, though more sporadically, as she became the first lady of Mobile society. Augusta finished
Vashti,
Infelice, and a murder mystery (which she declared was her favorite)
At the Mercy of Tiberius before her husband's death in 1891. After his death, she left Ashland and moved into her brother Howard's home in Mobile. In spite of deteriorating health and eyesight, Augusta wrote two more romantic novels,
A Speckled Bird and
Devota. She died of a heart attack on May 9, 1909, one day after her seventy-fourth birthday.Author of:
Inez, A Tale of the Alamo (1855);
Beulah (1859);
Macaria, or Altars of Sacrifice (1864);
St. Elmo, or Saved at Last (1866);
Vashti, or Until Death Us Do Part (1869);
Infelice (1875);
At the Mercy of Tiberius (1887);
A Speckled Bird (1902);
Devota (1907)
Essay on growing up black in Augusta. The author\u27s mother came to Augusta from
No full textEssay on growing up black in Augusta. The author\u27s mother came to Augusta from Texas in 1899. Her father sailed directly from Africa, and during her childhood there were only four other black families in the city. Details
Augusta Evans Wilson, Alabama Author, circa 1890s
No full textAugusta Evans Wilson, a native of Georgia, moved to Mobile, Alabama in 1849. She is author of a number of novels as well as one of the first female novelists to make a substantial fortune through her writing. She was also known as a staunch supporter of the Confederacy. (circa 1890s)https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib_ac_histimg_1890/1000/thumbnail.jp
Preview of a reading from Augusta Gone: A True Story, by the author, Martha T
No full textPreview of a reading from Augusta Gone: A True Story, by the author, Martha Tod Dudman, which is being presented at the Portland Public Library in Portland March 28
Creating the Arsenal: Augusta University’s undergraduate research journal
No full textThe Center for Undergraduate Research (CURS) at Augusta University supports faculty-led undergraduate research. In collaboration with a student organization, the Program Coordinator of CURS contacted the Augusta University Libraries to investigate how to start an undergraduate research journal and identify a hosting venue. Two librarians provided guidance on the creation of a new Open Access journal using resources already provided by the university. This article discusses establishing the journal’s identity, developing policies and processes, hosting and publishing the journal, as well as challenges faced throughout the process
Who\u27s Publishing What: Augusta
Full text linkFrom the author of Walking Home: Trail Stories, Celia Ryker\u27s Augusta is a gripping historical fiction based on the true, against-the-odds story of her grandmother
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