Thomas Nelson Page

Thomas Nelson Page was born in 1853 on a plantation in Hanover County, Virginia, into a family related to the great names of the state and impoverished by the war. He studied at Washington College, of which Robert E. Lee was president, then law at the University of Virginia, and practised as a lawyer in Richmond until 1893 before living by his pen and his lectures. He published some twenty books and popularised the idyllic image of the pre-war plantation. Ambassador to Italy from 1913 to 1919, appointed by Wilson, he died in 1922 in Hanover County.

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• NovelRed RockThomas Nelson Page · 1898LiteraturePublic domain