Eugenia Jones Bacon (1840-1920) was an American writer, known for her novel Lyddy: A Tale of the Old South (1898), a pro-slavery response to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

[2] Bacon was born Eugenia Amanda Jones in Liberty County, Georgia in 1840, and grew up on her father's rice plantation, Green Forest.

[1][3] In 1850, Bacon's mother, Saccharissa Axson Jones, died due to complications from giving birth to her ninth child.

[3] During the American Civil War, Bacon and her husband fled to southwest Georgia due to the advancement of the Union Army.

[4] In 1898, Bacon published the novel Lyddy: A Tale of the Old South, in part as a pro-slavery rebuttal to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, which advocated for abolitionism.

[6] Research by Lucinda H. MacKethan suggests that many of the novels's characters, including Marlborough, were based on real people whom Bacon had known during her childhood.

The real Marlborough (also spelled Marlboro) was enslaved by the Jones family and served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.