Virginia Frazer Boyle | |
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| Born | Virginia Frazer February 14, 1863 Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Died | December 13, 1938 Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
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| Notable awards | two medals and a diploma from Italy for her Red Cross work during the WWI |
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Thomas Raymond Boyle
(m. 1884) |
Virginia Frazer Boyle (February 14, 1863 – December 13, 1938) was an American author of prose and poetry. Interested in the Confederacy, she wrote several novels and more than 100 poems that took up various aspects and presented inspirational and patriotic points of view. She served as the poet laureate of the United Confederate Veterans and the Confederated Southern Memorial Association. She had innumerable stories and poems published in magazines. Boyle did extraordinary war work for the U.S. during World War I, receiving citations and medals for her service for Italy, and was made life member of two of the French Academies.[1]
- ^ The Biographical Cyclopaedia of American Women ... Vol. 2. Halvord Publishing Company. 1925. pp. 54–59. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
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