Margaret Wootten Collier (née, Wootten; pen name, Mrs. Bryan Wells Collier; December 9, 1869 – January 6, 1947) was an American writer of the Southern Renaissance era. She was the author of the seven volume Representative Women of the South, 1861-1925 (1920, 1923, 1925),[1][2] and was the official biographer of the Confederate Southern Memorial Association.[3]
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| Born | Margaret Wootten December 9, 1869 Walker County, Georgia, U.S. |
| Died | January 6, 1947 Atlanta, Georgia |
| Pen name | Mrs. Bryan Wells Collier |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | LaGrange Female College |
| Genre | Biographies |
| Subject | Southern United States |
| Literary movement | Southern Renaissance |
| Notable works | Representative Women of the South |
| Spouse | Bryan Wells Collier (m. 1897; died 1937) |
| Children | 2 |
Early life and education
Margaret Marion Wootten was born in Walker County, Georgia,[4] December 9, 1869. She was the youngest daughter of John Fletcher Wootten, M. D., of Wilkes County, Georgia, and Margaret Marion (Hendrix) Wootten.[1] Collier was one of four sisters, three of whom married ministers.[5]
Collier graduated from Dalton Female Academy and LaGrange Female College. She did special study of music under Professor Henry Schoeller and Alfredo Barili.[1]
Career
Collier was the author of the poem, "In My Garden of Love" (1925). She also edited the multi-volume Representative Women of the South, 1861-1920, 1920; Representative Women of the South, 1861-1923, 1923; and Representative Women of the South, 1861-1925, 1925.[1] Every State where there was a Chapter of the two Southern organizations -Memorial Association and Daughters of the Confederacy- was represented in this compilation. Included were pictures and sketches of Children of the Confederacy.[3]
She was a member of the National League of American Pen Women and of the National Society Daughters of the American Colonists;[6] historian of the Atlanta Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.; 1923–25); Corresponding Secretary General of Confederated Memorial Association (beginning in 1917); and president of the Robert Lee Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy (College Park, Georgia).[1]
Personal life
On December 9, 1897, she married the Rev. Bryan Wells Collier (1868-1937) of Griffin, Georgia. Their children were Bryan Wootten (born 1899) and Thomas Wootten (born 1902).[1][7]
Margaret Wootten Collier died in Atlanta, Georgia, January 6, 1947, and was buried in Dalton.[2]
Selected works
- Biographies of representative women of the South