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" Eliza Calvert Hall : "
Lynn E. Niedermeier.
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BL
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994198
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b748568
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| Main Entry
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Niedermeier, Lynn E.,1956-
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Eliza Calvert Hall : : Kentucky author and suffragist /\ Lynn E. Niedermeier.
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Lexington :: University Press of Kentucky,, ©2007.
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1 online resource (ix, 284 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :: illustrations
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0813159253
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: 0813172799
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: 9780813159256
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: 9780813172798
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0813124700
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9780813124704
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-276) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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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Hall, Eliza Calvert.
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Hall, Eliza Calvert.
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Feminists-- United States, Biography.
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Suffragists-- United States, Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.
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Feminists.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Suffragists.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.52
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PS3515.A3168Z78 2007eb
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