"The author of [the poem "Memorial Flowers"], Fanny Downing, was a daughter of Virginia, born in Portsmouth. Her father was John W. Murdaugh, a noted lawyer of Virginia, and she married Charles W. Downing, then Secretary of State for Florida. In 1862, while refugeeing with kindred in Charlotte, N.C., she assisted Gen. D. H. Hill in the publication of his magazine, "The Land We Love," for which she wrote a novel and many poems. After the war she lived in Washington, D. C., where she was Don Piatt's assistant on the Patriot, the leading daily paper there at the time. She died in 1894, and her poems are now being collected by her daughters for publication in book form. Such a volume will be a rich addition to the literature of the South. Her poems are noted for an exquisite sentiment. That [poem] on the death of the great War Governor of North Carolina, Vance, is considered on of her best, and the "Legend of Catawba" is another of special merit.
--"Confederate Veteran," Vol. XXIV, No. 1, January, 1916, p. 238.
--"Confederate Veteran," Vol. XXIV, No. 1, January, 1916, p. 238.
"The author of [the poem "Memorial Flowers"], Fanny Downing, was a daughter of Virginia, born in Portsmouth. Her father was John W. Murdaugh, a noted lawyer of Virginia, and she married Charles W. Downing, then Secretary of State for Florida. In 1862, while refugeeing with kindred in Charlotte, N.C., she assisted Gen. D. H. Hill in the publication of his magazine, "The Land We Love," for which she wrote a novel and many poems. After the war she lived in Washington, D. C., where she was Don Piatt's assistant on the Patriot, the leading daily paper there at the time. She died in 1894, and her poems are now being collected by her daughters for publication in book form. Such a volume will be a rich addition to the literature of the South. Her poems are noted for an exquisite sentiment. That [poem] on the death of the great War Governor of North Carolina, Vance, is considered on of her best, and the "Legend of Catawba" is another of special merit.
--"Confederate Veteran," Vol. XXIV, No. 1, January, 1916, p. 238.
--"Confederate Veteran," Vol. XXIV, No. 1, January, 1916, p. 238.
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