Eliza Frances Andrews

Eliza Frances Andrews
Photograph of Andrews, 1865
Photograph of Andrews, 1865
Born(1840-08-10)August 10, 1840
Washington, Georgia, United States
DiedJanuary 21, 1931(1931-01-21) (aged 90)
Rome, Georgia, United States
Notable worksA Family Secret (1876)
A Mere Adventurer (1879)
Wartime Journal of a Georgia Girl: 1864-65 (1908)
Botany All the Year Round (1903)
Practical Botany (1911)
ParentsGarnett Andrews
Annulet Ball Andrews

Eliza Frances Andrews (August 10, 1840 - January 21, 1931) was a popular American writer of the Gilded Age. Her shorter works were published in popular magazines and papers, including the New York World and Godey's Lady's Book.[1] Her longer works include The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl (1908) and two botany textbooks.[2]

Andrews gained fame in the fields of literature, education, and science, and had success both as an essayist and a novelist.[3] Financial difficulties led her to begin teaching after the deaths of her parents, though she continued to publish her writing. In her retirement, she published two textbooks on botany entitled Botany All the Year Round and Practical Botany,[3] the latter of which became popular in Europe and was translated for schools in France.[4]

  1. ^ Cook, Cita (February 2000). "Andrews, Eliza Frances". American National Biography Online. Retrieved 20 May 2014.
  2. ^ Kaufman, Janet E. (2000). "Andrews, Eliza Frances". In Benbow-Pfalzgraf, Taryn (ed.). American women writers : a critical reference guide; from colonial times to the present (2nd ed.). Detroit: St. James Press. pp. 27–28. ISBN 1558624333.
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