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Eliza Calvert Hall
Lynn E. Niedermeier
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Description for Eliza Calvert Hall
In 1907, the author, poet, essayist, and folk art historian Eliza Calvert Hall (1856-1935) published "Aunt Jane of Kentucky", a collection of stories about rural life infused with the spirit and gentle good humor. The book and several sequels achieved wide popularity. This work tells the story of this remarkable Kentucky woman. Num Pages: 288 pages, 26 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 572.
In 1907, the author, poet, essayist, and folk art historian Eliza Calvert Hall (1856--1935) published Aunt Jane of Kentucky, a collection of stories about rural life infused with the spirit and gentle good humor of its elderly narrator, Aunt Jane. The book and several sequels achieved wide popularity and placed Hall in the front ranks of "local color" fiction writers of her time. As Hall struggled to balance her writing career with the duties of a nineteenth-century wife and mother, suffragist Laura Clay was lobbying for every woman's right to vote. Hall joined the battle, writing fearlessly in support ... Read more
In 1907, the author, poet, essayist, and folk art historian Eliza Calvert Hall (1856--1935) published Aunt Jane of Kentucky, a collection of stories about rural life infused with the spirit and gentle good humor of its elderly narrator, Aunt Jane. The book and several sequels achieved wide popularity and placed Hall in the front ranks of "local color" fiction writers of her time. As Hall struggled to balance her writing career with the duties of a nineteenth-century wife and mother, suffragist Laura Clay was lobbying for every woman's right to vote. Hall joined the battle, writing fearlessly in support ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813124704
SKU
V9780813124704
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About Lynn E. Niedermeier
Lynn E. Niedermeier is archival assistant at the Kentucky Library and Museum at Western Kentucky University.
Reviews for Eliza Calvert Hall
Supplies a valuable history of the women's rights movement in Kentucky and introduces the reader to an overlooked author of compassionate and witty fiction. - Bonnie Jean Cox, former director of the University of Kentucky's Women and Gender Studies program