The Georgia Cottage is a historic estate in Mobile, Alabama. It is best noted for its connection with the famous novelist Augusta Jane Evans, allowing the house to be also known as the Augusta Evans Wilson House.
Built in 1940, the Georgia Cottage was originally owned by Colonel John Murrell, a Georgia native. He had it built for his daughter William A. Hardaway. It was acquired by Alfred Batre in 1855, and from him Augusta Jane Evans purchased the house in 1857 for her father, Matthew Evans using the proceeds of her first book. This was where Evans wrote two of her most famous novels, the ?Macaria? and ?St. Elmo?.
The Georgia Cottage was also the boyhood home of Eugene Bondurant Sledge, a noted university professor and author. The documentary, ?The War?, and the HBO miniseries, ?The Pacific?, were based on his memoir ?With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa.
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