Eliza Frances Andrews

Eliza Frances Andrews was a popular Southern writer of the Gilded Age. Her works were published in popular magazines and papers, including the New York World and Godeys Ladys Book. Her longer works included The WarTime Journal of a Georgian Girl and two botany textbooks.

Eliza Frances Fanny Andrews was born on August 10, 1840, in Washington, Georgia, the second daughter of Annulet Ball and Garnett Andrews, a Georgia superior court judge. Her father was a lawyer, judge, and plantation owner, possessing around two hundred slaves. Andrews grew up on the family estate, Haywood, the name of which she would later use in a pseudonym, Elzey Hay. attended the local Ladies Seminary school, and later graduated among the first class of students from LaGrange Female College in Georgia in 1857. She was wellversed in literature, music, and the arts, and was conversant in both French and Latin. Upon graduating Fanny had returned to live at home in the care of her family when the Southern states began to secede from the Union. Her father was notoriously outspoken against secession but, despite his views, three of his sons enlisted in the Confederate States Army and his daughters, too, believed in the rebellion. Thus, while Garnett Andrews refused to allow secessionist

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