Edith D. Pope graduated at the Tennessee Female College (Franklin, Tennessee) in 1888. Around 1890, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and from 1892 to 1913 she was the secretary of Sumner Archibald Cunningham, editor of the CONFEDERATE VETERAN magazine. After Cunningham's death in 1913, Edith D. Pope became editor of the CONFEDERATE VETERAN, and remained so until the magazine ended, in 1932. She was a member of the Tennessee Women's Press and Author's Club, a member of Nashville Chapter No. 1, United Daughters of the Confederacy (U.D.C.), a member of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, a member of the Women's Historical Association, and a member of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. In 1934, she returned to her family home in Burwood, Williamson County, Tennessee. Never married, she lived with her sisters (who also never married) Mary Elizabeth Pope (1861-1944) and Carrie Campbell Pope (1872-1961). The Pope sisters were the daughters of William Campbell Pope (1833-1910), who served as a private in Company E, Forty-fourth Tennessee Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., and Mary Caroline Drake Pope (1839-1911). A biography of Edith D. Pope was published under the title of EDITH D. POPE AND HER NASHVILLE FRIENDS: GUARDIANS OF THE LOST CAUSE IN THE CONFEDERATE VETERAN by John A. Simpson (Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2003), 276 pages in length.
Edith D. Pope graduated at the Tennessee Female College (Franklin, Tennessee) in 1888. Around 1890, she moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and from 1892 to 1913 she was the secretary of Sumner Archibald Cunningham, editor of the CONFEDERATE VETERAN magazine. After Cunningham's death in 1913, Edith D. Pope became editor of the CONFEDERATE VETERAN, and remained so until the magazine ended, in 1932. She was a member of the Tennessee Women's Press and Author's Club, a member of Nashville Chapter No. 1, United Daughters of the Confederacy (U.D.C.), a member of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society, a member of the Women's Historical Association, and a member of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. In 1934, she returned to her family home in Burwood, Williamson County, Tennessee. Never married, she lived with her sisters (who also never married) Mary Elizabeth Pope (1861-1944) and Carrie Campbell Pope (1872-1961). The Pope sisters were the daughters of William Campbell Pope (1833-1910), who served as a private in Company E, Forty-fourth Tennessee Infantry Regiment, C.S.A., and Mary Caroline Drake Pope (1839-1911). A biography of Edith D. Pope was published under the title of EDITH D. POPE AND HER NASHVILLE FRIENDS: GUARDIANS OF THE LOST CAUSE IN THE CONFEDERATE VETERAN by John A. Simpson (Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 2003), 276 pages in length.
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