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Eliza Calvert Hall : Kentucky author and suffragist / Lynn E. Niedermeier.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 284 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813172798
  • 0813172799
  • 9780813159256
  • 0813159253
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Eliza Calvert Hall.DDC classification:
  • 813/.52 22
LOC classification:
  • PS3515.A3168 Z78 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Fighting and preaching -- "It did not look as we had pictured you" -- Exile -- The major -- Cook, scullion, nurse, laundress -- Straight to a woman's heart -- Money and marriage -- Sally Ann's experience -- A jumble of quilt pieces -- Aunt Jane of Kentucky -- Seeing double -- A woman spinning and weaving -- Riding to town -- "Be glad you are not a woman" -- Grandmother's debut -- A hard worker all her life.
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Summary: 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 fearlessl
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-276) and index.

Fighting and preaching -- "It did not look as we had pictured you" -- Exile -- The major -- Cook, scullion, nurse, laundress -- Straight to a woman's heart -- Money and marriage -- Sally Ann's experience -- A jumble of quilt pieces -- Aunt Jane of Kentucky -- Seeing double -- A woman spinning and weaving -- Riding to town -- "Be glad you are not a woman" -- Grandmother's debut -- A hard worker all her life.

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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 fearlessl

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