Lucy Virginia French, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lucy Virginia French

American writer

Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1825

Place of Birth: Accomack County, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 31-Mar-1881

Profession: writer, poet, editor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Lucy Virginia French (pen name, L'Inconnue (The Unknown); March 16, 1825 – March 31, 1881) was a 19th-century American author from Virginia.
Her blank verse was considered especially strong, and her themes were well chosen, mostly in their measure.French belonged to a cultured and wealthy family.
Educated at Washington, Pennsylvania, she moved to Memphis, Tennessee where she lived until her marriage in 1853, to John Hopkins French, living after this at "Forest Home," near McMinnville, Tennessee.
Her first volume of poems, "Wind Whispers," appeared in 1856.
She wrote "Tecumseh's Foot," "The Great River," "The Lyre of Time," "The Palmetto and the Pine," "The Years," "Mammy," "Liberty Bells," and other poems, besides several novels and dramas.
She took a keen interest in the political questions of the day and wrote about them.
Her first novel, "My Roses," appeared in 1872, and her last one, "Darlingtonia," in 1879.
Between the years 1856 and 1879, she was actively engaged as literary editor of a number of magazines and newspapers.
She wrote under the name L'Inconnue (the unknown).
Among her friends were James Russell Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., John Greenleaf Whittier, and William Cullen Bryant.