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Margaret Wootten Collier (, Wootten;
pen name A pen name, also called a ''nom de plume'' or a literary double, is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name. A pen na ...
, Mrs. Bryan Wells Collier; December 9, 1869 – January 6, 1947) was an American writer of the
Southern Renaissance The Southern Renaissance (also known as Southern Renascence) was the reinvigoration of American Southern literature in the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of writers such as William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Caroline Gordon, Margaret Mitchell, K ...
era. She was the author of the seven volume ''Representative Women of the South, 1861-1925'' (1920, 1923, 1925), and was the official biographer of the Confederate Southern Memorial Association.


Early life and education

Margaret Marion Wootten was born in
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, December 9, 1869. She was the youngest daughter of John Fletcher Wootten, M. D., of
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, and Margaret Marion (Hendrix) Wootten. Collier was one of four sisters, three of whom married ministers. Collier graduated from Dalton Female Academy and LaGrange Female College. She did special study of music under Professor Henry Schoeller and Alfredo Barili.


Career

Collier was the author of the poem, "In My Garden of Love" (1925). She also edited the multi-volume ''Representative Women of the South, 1861-1920, 1920''; ''Representative Women of the South, 1861-1923, 1923''; and ''Representative Women of the South, 1861-1925, 1925''. Every State where there was a Chapter of the two Southern organizations -Memorial Association and Daughters of the Confederacy- was represented in this compilation. Included were pictures and sketches of Children of the Confederacy. She was a member of the
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and of the
National Society Daughters of the American Colonists The National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (NSDAC) is an organization of female descendants of American colonials. Its mission is education on the Colonial history of the United States. Membership Membership in NSDAC is open to fem ...
; historian of the Atlanta Chapter of the
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(D.A.R.; 1923–25); Corresponding Secretary General of Confederated Memorial Association (beginning in 1917); and president of the Robert Lee Chapter,
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(
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).


Personal life

On December 9, 1897, she married the Rev. Bryan Wells Collier (1868-1937) of
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. Their children were Bryan Wootten (born 1899) and Thomas Wootten (born 1902). Margaret Wootten Collier died in
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,
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, January 6, 1947, and was buried in Dalton.


Selected works

* ''Biographies of representative women of the South''


See also

*
Southern United States literature Southern United States literature consists of American literature written about the Southern United States or by writers from the region. Literature written about the American South first began during the colonial era, and developed significant ...


References

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