Category Archives: Owen Meredith’s “Lucile”

Reprise: Mrs Ellis’s copy of Lucile

I got the idea for the novel’s fictional Union sympathizer Leila Ellis to be reading Owen Meredith’s Lucile on the night the Rebs drove in the pickets at Fort Sanders from an old copy of the book I inherited from my … Continue reading

Posted in Owen Meredith's "Lucile", Parthenia Leila Ellis | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Owen Meredith

The author of Lucile, the extended poem-story that the novel’s Parthenia Leila Ellis was reading the night the Rebels drove in the Union pickets at Fort Sanders, was actually a British diplomat using a pen name. Thus Owen Meredith was … Continue reading

Posted in "Knoxville 1863", Owen Meredith's "Lucile", Parthenia Leila Ellis | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Mrs. Ellis’s copy of Lucile

I got the idea for Leila Ellis to be reading Lucile on the night the Rebs drove in the pickets at Fort Sanders from an old copy of the book I inherited from my Mississippi grandmother. Grandmother’s copy was published … Continue reading

Posted in Owen Meredith's "Lucile" | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment