{"id":1522,"date":"2014-07-29T13:37:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T20:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2014-07-29T13:54:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T20:54:22","slug":"lusk-elizabeth-leilla-fearn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1522","title":{"rendered":"LUSK, LEILA FEARN, 1863-1955"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer. \u00a0Born&#8211; August 29, 1863, Huntsville. Parents&#8211; Robert and Elizabeth Lee (Coles) Fearn, Jr. Married&#8211; John Alexander Lusk. Children&#8211; Five. Education&#8211; Huntsville Female Institute, Holly Springs (Mississippi) Institute. Served as president of the Alabama Writers Conclave and of the Alabama Branch of the League of American Pen Women. Member&#8211; Guntersville Literary Circle, Alabama Federation of Womens Clubs, United Daughters of the Confederacy, board of trustees, Kate Duncan Smith School. Died December 15, 1955.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Files at Birmingham Public Library and University Library at Jacksonville State University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chatu-Huchi, and other Alabama Legends. Dallas, Tex.; Kaleidograph Press, s.d.<\/p>\n<p>The History of the Presbyterian Church in Guntersville. S.l.; s.n., s.d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historic Homes of Gardens of Alabama and Their Tradition. S.l.; s.n., s.d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer. \u00a0Born&#8211; August 29, 1863, Huntsville. Parents&#8211; Robert and Elizabeth Lee (Coles) Fearn, Jr. Married&#8211; John Alexander Lusk. Children&#8211; Five. Education&#8211; Huntsville Female Institute, Holly Springs (Mississippi) Institute. Served as president of the Alabama Writers Conclave and of the Alabama Branch of the League of American Pen Women. Member&#8211; Guntersville Literary Circle, Alabama Federation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3499,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions\/3499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}