Nelly Marshall

Nelly Marshall (after marriage, McAfee; pseudonym, Sans Souci; May 8, 1845 – April 19, 1898) was a 19th-century American "southland" author of novels and verse. In her day, Marshall was perhaps one of the most popular writers in the Southern and Western United States. In her first ten years of writing, she may have written more than any woman of her age in the United States. In addition to numerous poems and magazine articles, she published two volumes of verse, entitled ''A Bunch of Violets'', and ''Leaves From the Book of My Heart''. Her novels included ''Eleanor Morton, or Life in Dixie'' (1865); ''Sodom Apples'' (1866); ''Fireside Gleamings'' (1866); ''Dead Under the Roses'' (1867); ''Wearing the Cross'' (1868); ''As by Fire'' (1869); ''Passion, or Bartered and Sold'' (1876); and ''A Criminal Through Love'' (1882). Provided by Wikipedia