About: Julia Pleasants Creswell
Julia Pleasants Creswell (née , Pleasants; pen names, Adrienne and Amelia; August 21, 1827 - June 9, 1886) was an American poet and novelist of the south 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.