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Julia Magruder (September 14, 1854 – June 9, 1907)〔("Julia MacGruder Dead" (June 10, 1907) ''New York Times'' )〕 was an American novelist. Most of her novels are love stories in which the heroine must face obstacles in pursuit of her goal to find true love.〔("Julia Magruder" at Encyclopedia Virginia ) 〕 Several of her novels were serialized in the ''Ladies' Home Journal''.〔〔 A week before her death she received the award from the ''Académie Française'' for which she had been nominated a year earlier. ==Life and works== Julia Magruder was born at Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1854. This being about the time of the outbreak of the American Civil War, it affected the subsequent development of her desire to improve the view the North had of the South in the latter half of the century. She was the youngest of the three daughters of Allan Bowie Magruder, a prominent Virginia lawyer, and his wife, Sarah ''née'' Gilliam.〔''Book News'' (1892) John Wanamaker〕 Magruder's infancy was spent at her birthplace. When she was three years of age the Magruder family removed to Washington, where Mr. Magruder practised law for several years, and where his daughters received their earliest education. Later Mr. Magruder's family vacillated between Washington and their home in Virginia, in both of which places the education of the three girls was given by their parents and governesses.〔 It was at this time that she developed an admiration for and devotion to George Eliot.〔 As a child Miss Magruder gave no evidence of her talent for writing but when she was sixteen she published her first story, "My Three Chances," in a Southern newspaper, and, encouraged by her success, wrote sketches, stories for children (her particular delight), and tales of fiction, as well as short magazine stories in rapid succession. Her first important work, ''Across the Chasm'' (1885), was published anonymously in ''Ladies' Home Journal'', and brought its author her first taste of the trials, as well as the glories of her craft and profession. The story portrayed the mutual experiences and prejudices of a Southern girl who marries a Northern man, and is full of critical measurement of North and South.〔 A close friend was Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy and she frequently stayed at her home, Castle Hill, where she did some of her writing.〔 The following description of her physical attributes appeared in ''Ladies Home Journal'',
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