Julia Pleasants Creswell

Julia Pleasants Creswell (née Julia Pamelia Pleasants; pen names, Adrienne and Amelia; August 21, 1827 – June 9, 1886) was a poet and novelist of Southern United States literature who lived in Alabama and Louisiana. She was author of Aphelia, and Other Poems by Two Cousins of the South, in conjunction with Thomas M. Bibb Bradley, of Huntsville, published in 1854; Poems; Callamura, an allegorical novel, published 1868; posthumous volume of poems; Abracadabra, a novel which was never published; and a book of short poems which she had ready for publication but never published, dedicated to George D. Prentice in appreciation of his devotion to Southern literature.

Julia Pleasants Creswell
BornJulia Pamelia Pleasants
August 21, 1827
Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.
DiedJune 9, 1886 (aged 58)
Pen name
  • Adrienne
  • Amelia
OccupationWriter
Genre
  • poetry
  • novels
Spouse
David Creswell
(m. 1854)
Children8
ParentsJames J. Pleasants
Relatives
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