WELBY, Mrs. Amelia B. Coppuck

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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. 

Amelia's first contributions were to The Louisville Journal.  The Southern Literary Messenger published Amelia's poem "Musings" in its April 1841 issue and her "The Presence of God" in its issue for December of that year.  

Poems by Amelia was published by Abel Tompkins of Boston in 1845, and her book received a positive review in The Southern Quarterly Review.  As Amelia's A Woman of the Century profile notes, "It was republished in 1850, in New York, in enlarged form, with illustrations by Robert W. Weir" (757).  Amelia also contributed to Graham's Magazine in 1852.

She passed away in Louisville on May 3, 1852.

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