Nelly Marshall

Nelly Marshall
BornNelly Nichol Marshall
May 8, 1845
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
DiedApril 19, 1898 (aged 52)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Pen nameSans Souci
Occupationauthor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Genre
  • novels
  • poetry
  • serials
  • essays
  • letters
  • sketches
Spouse
John J. McAfee
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(m. 1871; died 1896)​
RelativesHumphrey Marshall (father)

Nelly Marshall (after marriage, McAfee; pseudonym, Sans Souci; May 8, 1845 – April 19, 1898) was a 19th-century American "southland"[1] author of novels and verse. In her day, Marshall was perhaps one of the most popular writers in the Southern and Western United States.[2] In her first ten years of writing, she may have written more than any woman of her age in the United States.[3] In addition to numerous poems and magazine articles,[4] she published two volumes of verse, entitled A Bunch of Violets, and Leaves From the Book of My Heart. Her novels included Eleanor Morton, or Life in Dixie (1865); Sodom Apples (1866); Fireside Gleamings (1866); Dead Under the Roses (1867); Wearing the Cross (1868); As by Fire (1869); Passion, or Bartered and Sold (1876); and A Criminal Through Love (1882).[5]

  1. ^ Cushing 1885, p. 487.
  2. ^ Raymond 1870, p. 163.
  3. ^ Collins 1882, p. 601.
  4. ^ Bradley, Joseph P. (1900). "Marshall, Thomas (planter)" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. Vol. IV. pp. 221–227, see page 227.
  5. ^ Townsend 1913, p. 353.