Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author and Suffragist (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813124704)

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
ISBN-10: 0813124700
ISBN-13: 9780813124704
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 10/05/2007
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.38w x 0.94d