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Martha Berry : the Sunday Lady of Possum Trot / by Tracy Byers.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 8274
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Byers, Tracy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Berry, Martha, 1866-1942.
- Berry, Martha.
- Berry College.
- Women educators--Georgia--Biography.
- Women educators.
- Education, Rural--Georgia--History.
- Education, Rural.
- Georgia.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 268 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Sunday Lady of Possum Trot
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [1932]
- Contents:
- Like father, like daughter
- The cabin for simplicity
- The Sunday lady
- A heap o' larnin'
- Plow for labor
- The Bible for prayer
- Hard times
- An ambassador of the king
- Stately halls
- Getting hitched up right
- The arch persuader
- Help from high places
- Be a lifter
- In the shadow of Lavendar Mountain
- Mobilizing for peace
- A distinguished citizen
- "Termorrer ain't been teched."
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 8274: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Author's ink autograph and inscription on front free endleaf recto: Dr. Kennedy, Blest be the tie that binds, Martha Berry, May 21th [sic] 1939. With dust jacket.
- OCLC:
- 1373829
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