Georgie A. Hulse McLeod

Georgie A. Hulse McLeod (, Hulse; pen name, various, including Mary A. Holmes and Flora Neale; 1827–1890) was an American author and hymnwriter of Southern United States literature, as well as an educator and temperance activist. She was well known in literary and temperance circles throughout the American South.

For 18 years, she corresponded with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who took much interest in her and in her work. She received encouragement from Lydia Sigourney, while Dr. Benjamin Franklin Thompson, the Long Island historian, was also one of McLeod's steadfast friends. (According to Hulse (1922), Georgie was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1835.) a native of Pensacola. There is great similarity among these volumes. They are eminently moral, sometimes religious, and always temperate in being removed from the sensational and melodramatic. A very industrious writer, she considered her writing as a recreation.

McLeod was the secretary of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) of Maryland and the Southern secretary for the National W.C.T.U.

Later life and death She was writing a prohibition story, entitled Unprotected Home, when taken sick. Georgie A. Hulse McLeod died at Baltimore, July 2, 1890.

Selected works Books Sunbeams and Shadows, and Buds and Blossoms; or, Leaves from Aunt Minnie's Portfolio, 1851 (text) Buds and Blossoms, sequel to Sunbeams and Shadows, September 1851 Ivy Leaves from An Old Homestead, 1857, prose and verse Mine and Thine; or, The Step Mother's Reward, 1857 Sea-drifts, 1864 Zarvona, 1865 Bright Memories, In Memoriam Amelia Hulse Roberts, 1866 How Jessie Came Out of the Shadows, 1872 God's Jewels, 1874 Standing Guard The Old, Old Story

Hymn lyrics "Are the Boys Safe Tonight?" "Home at Last" "Like the Snowflakes" "Marching on to Battle" "The Swelling of Jordan"