| Eugenia Dunlap Potts | |
| Birth Date: | 14 April 1840 |
| Birth Place: | Lancaster, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Fayette County, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Resting Place: | Lancaster Cemetery, Lancaster, Kentucky |
| Occupation: | Poet |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Spouse: | Richard Potts |
| Children: | George Dunlap Potts |
| Parents: | George W. Dunlap Nancy (Nannie) E. Jennings |
Eugenia Dunlap Potts (April 14, 1840 - February 29, 1912) was a writer in Lancaster, Kentucky.[1] [2] [3] She owned and edited the Illustrated Kentuckian. She wrote poetry and historical works. Potts was recognized by the State of Kentucky for her contributions as a Kentucky author with a plaque outside the site of her former home.
Potts was born in Lancaster, Kentucky, the daughter of lawyer and statesman George W. Dunlap and Nancy (Nannie) E. Jennings.[4] She graduated from the Franklin Female Institute in Lancaster.[4] She also attended a finishing school in Philadelphia, where she studied music and French.[4]
Her "Song of Lancaster" was described as a "metrical history after the style of Hiawatha". Longfellow corresponded with her approvingly about it. She also wrote the essay "Women's Work in Kentucky".[5]
In May 1892, Potts joined a new monthly publication focused on "literature, education and art", called the Illustrated Kentuckian.[6] [7] The paper was managed by a journalist from New York, Ben La Bree;[6] Potts joined the editorial staff,[4] [6] and was responsible for the "belles lettres and social features".[6] The paper was eventually.relocated to Louisville and became the Illustrated South.[8]
Potts was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. She served as a state officer for its Kentucky branch, and as a delegate from its Lexington chapter to the seventh annual convention of the organisation in 1900. She was a member of the Episcopal Church.
She married Major Richard Potts, a surgeon who served in first the U.S. Army and then in the Confederate Army.[4] They had one son, named George Dunlap Potts, who was born in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1865.[4] [9] She became a widow.[10]