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ELIZA JANE POITEVANT NICHOLSON (1849-1896)
ALONG THE COAST
by Charles Lawrence Dyer First Printing 1894
"One of the most noted residents of Waveland, is Mrs. Eliza J. Nicholson -better known under the nom de plume of "Pearl Rivers" - the proprietor of the New Orleans Daily Picayune, one of the most popular and powerful journals in the South.
Mrs. Nicholson's girlhood life was spent in a rambling old country house, near the brown waters of Pearl River. She was the only child on the place; a lonesome child, with the heart of a poet, and she took to the beautiful Southern woods and made them her sanctuary. A born poet it was not long before she found her voice and began to sing, full and sweet, the fairy stories of the woods. These songs reached out in the world and the wise and gray heads of other poets were listeners to the little one's songs of nature.
She became a contributor to the New York Home Journal, and other papers of high standing, and the name of "Pearl Rivers" - the other name of the editor and proprietor of the Picayune - is one that is held dear by the many who have read her exquisite verse. She is the poet laureate of the birds and flowers of the South. Her poems and fantasies of the