WYLIE, Mrs. Lollie Belle

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Lollie Belle Wylie was born in Bayou Coden, near Mobile, AL, on October 21, 1858.  After growng up in Georgia, she married Hart Wylie at age seventeen.  

She published a book of poems while her husband was ill, and began writing for The Atlanta Journal soon after his passing.  By 1890, Lollie Belle was the managed her own paper, Society.  In this endeavor, she worked with xxx, who was editor.  As vice-president of the Woman's Press Club of Georgia, she collaborated with Elia Goode Byington, who was the president.

In October of 1892, Lollie Belle moved to Macon, GA, where she became affiliated with The Evening News.  In addition to running the women's department of the paper, she was society editor.  That same month, some of her poetry was published in Fetter's Southern Magazine.  Three years later, the November 1895 volume of Peterson's Magazine included a sketch of Lollie Belle and some of her poetry.  Her "The Secret of Matanzas Bay" was included in The Illustrator in October of 1896.

The next year, Lollie Belle became the editor of The Butterfly, an Atlanta society magazine.  In 1898, Franklin Printing and Publishing Company of Atlanta published The Memoirs of Judge Richard H. Clark, a book that Lollie Belle had edited.  By 1903, she was writing book reviews for The Savannah Morning News, including one for Myrta Lockett Avary's A Virginia Girl in the Civil War.

Lollie Belle passed away in 1923.

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