WEISS, Mrs. Susan Archer
Susan Archer Talley Weiss was born in Hanover County, VA on February 14. A Woman of the Century lists her birth year as 1835, but other sources list it as 1822. Her family moved to Richmond when Susan was eight, and she lost her ability to hear two years later, due to Scarlet Fever. <br /><br />With the support of her father and her cousin, sculptor Alexander Galt, Susan cultivated her artistic and writing talents. She published in <a href="http://www.marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/113" target="_blank"><em>The Southern Literary Messenger</em></a> when she was eleven and began her writing career. During her career, she contributed many <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl?c=moajrnl&cc=moajrnl&key=author&page=browse&value=Talley&Submit=Submit" target="_blank">pieces</a> to this prominent Richmond periodical. Susan's work was also available in book form, as Rudd & Carleton published her <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t5gb2z460;view=1up;seq=7" target="_blank">Poems</a> in 1859. On October 26, <em>The Richmond Dispatch</em> included an <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024738/1859-10-26/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1789&sort=date&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=18&words=Archer+Susan+Talley&proxdistance=5&date2=1963&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Susan+Archer+Talley&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank">advertisement</a> noting that Susan's book was being sold for seventy-five cents at Randolph's Bookstore and Bindery on Main Street in Richmond. <em>The Nationa Era</em> <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026752/1859-11-10/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1789&sort=date&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=19&words=Archer+Susan+Talley&proxdistance=5&date2=1963&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Susan+Archer+Talley&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank">reviewed</a> her book on November 10, 1859.<br /><br />Susan's personal network in Richmond included Benjamin B. Minor, editor of <em>The Southern Literary Messenger</em>, Edgar Allan Poe, Rosalie Poe, and sculptor Edward Virginius Valentine. <br /><br />Her lengthy poem <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=dul1.ark:/13960/t8z902596;view=1up;seq=2" target="_blank">"The Battle of Manassas"</a> was published as a broadside in Richmond on August 3, 1861. When living in Norfolk during the Civil War, Susan apparently served as a <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31929632" target="_blank">spy</a>, was caught, and spent time in confinement.<br /><br />She married Colonel Louis Weiss of the Union Army, started a family and moved to New York City. However, Susan's personal life was not a happy one and the couple divorced. Focusing on her writing to support herself and her son, Susan penned pieces for newspapers and magazines such as <a href="http://www.marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/32" target="_blank"><em>Scribner's Monthly</em></a> ("<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000011751272;view=1up;seq=992" target="_blank">Peter Bloch. A Hartz Legend,"</a> September 1871), <a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/226" target="_blank"><em>The Aldine</em></a> ("The Best to Come," June 1875), <a href="http://www.marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/31" target="_blank"><em>Century Magazine</em> </a>("The Last Days of Poe," April 1878), <a href="http://www.marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/33" target="_blank"><em>Harper's Magazine </em></a>(May 1878), <em>Wide Awake</em> (June 1886), and <em>The People's Home Journal</em> (1904).<br /><br />In 1907, Broadway Publishing Company published Susan's <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33930" target="_blank"><em>The</em> <em>Home Life of Poe</em>.</a><br /><br />During her later years, she lived in Richmond with her son. She passed away there on April 7, 1917 and was buried in Riverview Cemetery.
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<em>Southern Literary Messenger</em>
Periodical founded in Richmond, VA
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WELBY, Mrs. Amelia B. Coppuck
<p><span>Amelia B. Coppuck Welby was born in St. Michael's, Maryland, on February 3, 1819. Best known by her pseudonym "Amelia," she was an author who spent most of her life in Louisville, Kentucky. </span><br /><br /><span>Amelia's first contributions were to <em>The</em></span><em><span> </span>Louisville Journal. </em><em><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/113" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Southern Literary Messenger<span> </span></a></em><span>published Amelia's poem</span><a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/acf2679.0007.004/285:10?rgn=full+text;view=image;q1=musings" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> "Musings"</a><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/%20http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/acf2679.0007.004/285" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> </a><span>in its April 1841 issue and her </span><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/acf2679.0007.012/877" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"The Presence of God"</a><span> in its issue for December of that year. </span><br /><br /><em>Poems</em><span> </span><em>by Amelia</em><span> was published by Abel Tompkins of Boston in 1845, and her book received a positive </span><em><a href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moajrnl/acp1141.1-08.016/425" target="_blank" rel="noopener">review</a></em><span> in <em>The </em></span><em>Southern Quarterly Review</em><span>. As Amelia's <em>A Woman of the Century</em> profile notes, "It was </span><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t6xw50053;view=1up;seq=7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">republished</a><span> in 1850, in New York, in enlarged form, with illustrations by Robert W. Weir" (757). Amelia also contributed to </span><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86081965/1852-01-29/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=1830&sort=date&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=11&words=Amelia+Welby&proxdistance=5&date2=1855&ortext=&proxtext=Amelia+Welby&phrasetext=&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=17" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Graham's Magazine</em></a><span> in 1852.</span><br /><br /><span>She passed away in Louisville on May 3, 1852.</span></p>
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