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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.
Contributor:
Schimmel, Caroline F., associated name, former owner.
Cairns Collection of American Women Writers
Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)
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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