St. Elmo
by Augusta J. Evans
"St. Elmo" was the first novel written by a Southern author to sell one million copies. Evans depicted a moral struggle between good and evil. The novel's male protagonist, St. Elmo Murray, is at first a cynical and cruel man, but he is gradually converted to Christianity through his love for the virtuous heroine, Edna Earle. Edna willingly gives up her literary career when she marries St. Elmo, and this choice reflects Evans's belief that women were happiest, and most powerful, when they devoted themselves to their families and homes. This was a common idea in the mid-nineteenth century, and is it one of the major themes of domestic fiction.
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Title from electronic title page (viewed March 25, 2009)
This electronic edition is part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South. It is part of the collection Library of Southern literature.
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Transcribed from: St. Elmo : a novel / by Augusta J. Evans. New York : Carleton ; London : S. Low Son & Co., 1867. 571 p. ; 19 cm.
Funding from the University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill supported the electronic publication of this title.
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