In Ole Virginia by Thomas Nelson Page
Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) was an American writer born in the village of Beaverdam in Hanover County, Virginia. A scion of the prominent Nelson and Page families, he attended Washington College and the University of Virginia in pursuit of a legal career and practiced as a lawyer in Richmond between 1876 and 1893. However, he kept up his writing which, when compiled and published in 1912, amounted to eighteen volumes. His works include: Marse Chan (1884), In Ole Virginia (1887), Two Little Confederates (1888), Befo' de War (1888), On Newfound River (1891), Elsket (1891), The Old South (1892), Pastime Stories (1894), The Burial of the Guns (1894), The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock (1897) and Two Prisoners (1898).
Thomas Nelson Page was born on April 23, 1853 at the Oakland plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, a descendent of the prominent Nelson and Page families. A mere boy of eight when the War Between the States erupted, his once-wealthy family was impoverished by the war and especially the Reconstruction era. He graduated from the University of Virginia Law School in 1874 and was admitted to the bar in 1876. He practiced law in Richmond until 1893, when he moved to Washington, D.C. and began his career as a writer. Many of Page's boyhood experiences on the plantation and during the tumultuous years of the 1860s and 1870s would later find their way onto the pages of his literary works, both fiction and non-fiction. He popularized the Plantation Tradition of writing, which told a stylized version of antebellum Southern life. His 1887 collection of short stories entitled, In Ole Virginia, is considered the quintessential work of the genre. Under President Woodrow Wilson, Page was appointed as U.S. ambassador to Italy and he served in that capacity from 1913 to 1919, when he resigned due to failing health and returned to live out the remainder of his years at his birthplace in Virginia. He died at Oakland plantation from heart and kidney disease on November 1, 1922, and was buried at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781016695596 |
| ISBN 10 | 1016695594 |
| Title | In Ole Virginia |
| Author | Thomas Nelson Page |
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| Publisher | Legare Street Press |
| Year published | 2022-10-27 |
| Number of pages | 244 |
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