Eliza A. Dupuy

Eliza Ann Dupuy ( – December 29, 1880) was a littérateur and pioneer author of the Southern United States. She is remembered as the first woman of Mississippi to earn her living as a writer.

Dupuy wrote approximately 25 Gothic thrillers during the period of 1845 through 1880, as well as domestic novels, and short stories, making her perhaps one of the most widely-known authors of her day. At an early age, she became a governess in Natchez, Mississippi and while so employed wrote her first book, ''The Conspirators'', in which Aaron Burr is the principal character. Her other works included ''The Huguenot Exiles'', ''Emma Wattou, or Trials and Triumphs'', ''Celeste'', ''Florence, or the Fatal Vow'', ''Separation'', ''Concealed Treasure'', ''Ashleigh'', and ''The Country Neighborhood''. She wrote in all about forty stories, most of them for the ''New York Ledger''. In later life, she experienced a weakness of the eyes. Provided by Wikipedia