{"id":1671,"date":"2012-02-14T14:23:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T21:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2015-09-29T12:11:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T19:11:51","slug":"moore-idora-mcclellan-plowman-1843-1929","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1671","title":{"rendered":"MOORE, IDORA McCLELLAN PLOWMAN, 1843-1929"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Writer. Born&#8211; Talladega, Ala., October 31, 1843. Parents&#8211; General William B. and Martha (Robey) McClellan. Married&#8211;(1) Albert W. Plowman, 1873 \u00a0(died 1878) ;\u00a0(2)\u00a0 M. V. Moore, 1892 (died 1900). Children&#8211; One.\u00a0 Education&#8211; Centenary Institute, a Methodist academy located at \u00a0Summerfield, Alabama.\u00a0 Began her career by\u00a0writing humorous dialect \u00a0pieces under the pseudonym Betsy Hamilton\u00a0for\u00a0 <em>The Alabama Reporter<\/em>, a local Talladega newspaper; later wrote for <em>The Sunny South<\/em>, an Atlanta paper, and for some years for <em>The Atlanta Constitution.\u00a0 <\/em>Wrote pieces for <em>Harper&#8217;s Weekly.<\/em>\u00a0 Performed public readings of her writing all over the country.\u00a0 Founding member of Alabama Writers Conclave.\u00a0The\u00a0Conclave\u00a0created the &#8220;Betsy Hamilton Collection of Alabama Writers&#8221; in her honor\u00a0in the library at\u00a0the University of Montevallo. \u00a0Died February 26, 1929.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<em>:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>American Authors<\/em> and Books and\u00a0 <em>Southern Character Sketches<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, Virginia K., &#8220;Betsy Hamilton,&#8221; <em>Alabama Librarian<\/em>, XIII (1962), 13-15.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christmas on\u00a0an Old Time Plantation. S.l.; s.n., 19&#8211;?. (Written by request of, and read to, the Highland City Book Club of Talladega, Alabama.)<\/p>\n<p>Betsy Hamilton: Southern Character Sketches. Atlanta, Ga.; The Dickert Co., 1921.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Writer. Born&#8211; Talladega, Ala., October 31, 1843. Parents&#8211; General William B. and Martha (Robey) McClellan. Married&#8211;(1) Albert W. Plowman, 1873 \u00a0(died 1878) ;\u00a0(2)\u00a0 M. V. Moore, 1892 (died 1900). Children&#8211; One.\u00a0 Education&#8211; Centenary Institute, a Methodist academy located at \u00a0Summerfield, Alabama.\u00a0 Began her career by\u00a0writing humorous dialect \u00a0pieces under the pseudonym Betsy Hamilton\u00a0for\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","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=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4997,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions\/4997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}