Eliza Calvert Hall : Kentucky Author and Suffragist / Lynn E. Niedermeier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Niedermeier, Lynn E., 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminists--United States--Biography.

Feminists.

Suffragists--United States--Biography.

Suffragists.

Hall, Eliza Calvert.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2007.

Language Note:

English

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

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-276) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813159256

0813159253

9780813172798

0813172799

OCLC:

173766150