Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author and Suffragist

In 1907, 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, reaching an estimated one million readers in her lifetime, and placed Hall in the front ranks of "local color" fiction writers of her time. Eliza Calvert Hall's life and work unfolded during a time of r

Author: Lynn E. Niedermeier
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 10/05/2007
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.38w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780813124704

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