Katherine Ann Richards DuBose (September 19, 1826 – May 26, 1906) was an American author who often published under the name Leila Cameron.
Kate DuBose | |
|---|---|
| Born | September 19, 1826  Hook Norton |
| Died | May 26, 1906 (aged 79) Sparta |
| Family | Thomas Addison Richards |
Katherine Ann Richards was born on September 19, 1826 in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England, the daughter of Rev. William Richards, a Baptist clergyman who later emigrated to the United States.[1] Her siblings were the painter Thomas Addison Richards, Civil War diarist Samuel Pearce Richards, clergyman and author William Carey Richards, and poet Amelia Sarah Richards Williams.[2] In 1848, she married Charles Wilds DuBose, a lawyer and politician.[1] Charles DuBose was also executor of the estate which Amanda America Dickson inherited.[3]
DuBose's literary output was mostly stories and poems published in magazines, including the Southern Literary Gazette, Orion, and Schoolfellow. She published a prose story for children called The Pastor's Household in 1858.[4] She provided the lyrics for a Confederate anthem, "God Defendeth the Right", which was published in the Atlanta Southern Confederacy in 1861 as well as in sheet music form by J.C. Schreiner & Sons.[5]
Katherine Ann Richards DuBose died on 26 May 1906 in Sparta, Georgia.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b James Grant Wilson; John Fiske, eds. (1900), Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, New York City: D. Appleton & Company, Wikidata Q12912667
- ^ Cooke, Mary Lee (2007). Southern Women, Southern Voices: Civil War Songs By Southern Women (PDF) (Thesis). University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
- ^ Leslie, Kent Anderson. "Woman of color, daughter of privilege : Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893".
- ^ Raymond, Ida (2005). Southland writers. Biographical and critical sketches of the living female writers of the South. With extracts from their writings. By Ida Raymond.
- ^ Richards, Samuel P. (2009). Sam Richards's Civil War Diary: A Chronicle of the Atlanta Home Front. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-2999-4.
- ^ "The Atlanta Constitution 27 May 1906, page Page 7". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2023-08-14.