Eliza Calvert Hall : Kentucky author and suffragist
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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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
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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