Dupuy, Eliza Ann (1814–1881)

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Dupuy, Eliza Ann (1814–1881)

American novelist and short-story writer. Name variations: (pseudonym) Annie Young. Born 1814 in Petersburg, Virginia; died 1881 in New Orleans, Mississippi; dau. of Jesse Dupuy and Mary Anne Thompson Sturdivant Dupuy.

Wrote historical melodramas including Celeste, The Pirate's Daughter (1845), The Conspirator (1850), All for Love; or, The Outlaw's Bride (1873) and The Discarded Wife; or, Will She Succeed? (1875).

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