╪PARA ╨PAR@ ` └TEXT ` ▓Elliott, Sarah Barnwell1848╨1928novelist and suffragistBorn on August 29, 1848, in Savannah, Georgia, Sarah Elliott grew up there and in Sewanee, Tennessee, where her father, an Episcopal bishop, was chancellor of the University of the South. She was educated by tutors and by her own efforts and from an early age took an interest in writing. In 1879 she published her first novel, The Felmeres. In 1886 she studied briefly at The Johns Hopkins University. She published a short novel, A Simple Heart, in 1887 and followed it in 1891 with Jerry, a novel first serialized in Scribner╒s Magazine. Jerry told of a simple boy from the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee who is slowly but inevitably corrupted and destroyed by the inhuman forces of postbellum America. As an early and successful example of literary naturalism the book was a sensation, widely reprinted and translated. John Paget, 1893, and The Durket Sperret, 1898, both novels, An Incident and Other Happenings, a collection of earlier stories set in the South and Southwest, 1899, and The Making of Jane, a novel, 1901, were less popular but also interesting in their interplay of moral codes and amoral realities. In 1900 she wrote a biography of Sam Houston. She also wrote three plays, at least one of which, His Majesty╒s Servant, was produced in London. Residence in New York City in 1895╨1902 exposed her to new ideas, and after her return to Sewanee she helped form the Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association, of which she was president in 1912╨1914. In 1912 she became the first woman to address the Tennessee legislature. After 1914 she took little part in public affairs. She died in Sewanee, Tennessee, on August 30, 1928. εstyl ` ! ¬ 5¬ " 5¬ ; !I à !I æ !I ∩ !I ² !I $ !I ) !I G !I Z !I ] !I b !I | !I å !I Æ !I ñ !I ╣ !I ┘ !I % !I 7 !I
