Margaret Junkin Preston (1820-1897)
The “Natural Bridge Chair” belonging to Margaret Junkin Preston, which is decorated with a painting of the Natural Bridge, is on display at the Rockbridge Historical Society in Lexington, Virginia.
The reading desk of Margaret Junkin Preston located at the Stonewall Jackson House Museum in Lexington, Virginia (photo credit: R. Andrew Myers).
Margaret Junkin Preston is buried at the Oak Grove Cemetery (formerly known as Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery), Lexington, Virginia (photo credit: R. Andrew Myers).
The Fate of a Rain-Drop (1842)
Galileo Before the Inquisition (1848)
The Old Dominion: A Ballad (1849)
An Apostrophe to Niagra (1849)
Hither Bring Thy Magic Pencil (1850)
The Haunts of the Student (1850)
Confessions of Zephyrus: A Phantasy of the Antique (1850)
Silverwood: Book of Memories (1856)
Stonewall Jackson’s Grave (1864)
Beechenbrook: A Rhyme of the War (1866)
Count Hugo: A Ballad For the Times (1867)
The Only Son of His Mother (1867)
The Young Ruler’s Question (1869)
The Ballad of the Bell-Tower (1876)
The Literary Profession in the South (1881)
Greenway Court: An Old Dominion Ballad — A.D. 1748 (1883)
Centennial Poem for Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, 1775-1885 (1885)
Personal Reminiscences of Stonewall Jackson (1886)
For Love’s Sake: Poems of Faith and Comfort (1886)
A Handful of Monographs: Continental and English (1886)
The General’s Colored Sunday-School (1887)
Colonial Ballads, Sonnets and Other Verse (1887)
General Lee After the War (1889)
Chimes for Church-Children (1889)
Aunt Dorothy: An Old Virginia Plantation Story (1890)
Giving Children Right Impressions of Death (1891)
