St. Elmo

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St. Elmo

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Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
Her next novel, St. Elmo (1866), was a huge success, with its Byronic hero saved to righteousness by a virtuous maiden. It was later dramatized and in 1914 adapted for a silent film. (The book’s sentimentality and turgidity inspired a popular parody, St. Twel’mo, by William Webb.)
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Her next novel, St. Elmo (1866), was a huge success, with its Byronic hero saved to righteousness by a virtuous maiden. It was later dramatized and in 1914 adapted for a silent film. (The book’s sentimentality and turgidity inspired a popular parody, St. Twel’mo, by William Webb.)
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