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Emma Bell Miles Once I Too Had Wings (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Once I Too HAD Wings : the Journals of EMMA BELL Miles, 1908-1918
- Publication Name
- Once I Too Had Wings
- Title
- Once I Too Had Wings
- Subtitle
- The Journals of Emma Bell Miles, 1908–1918
- Contributor
- Steven Cox (Edited by)
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0821420860
- EAN
- 9780821420867
- ISBN
- 9780821420867
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Women Authors, Diaries & Journals, Literary, American / General
- Release Date
- 11/03/2014
- Release Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.3in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Series
- Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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Emma Bell Miles (1879-1919) was a gifted writer, poet, naturalist, and artist with a keen perspective on Appalachian life and culture. She and her husband Frank lived on Walden's Ridge in southeast Tennessee, where they struggled to raise a family in the difficult mountain environment. Between 1908 and 1918, Miles kept a series of journals in which she recorded in beautiful and haunting prose the natural wonders and local customs of Walden's Ridge. Jobs were scarce, however, and as the family's financial situation deteriorated, Miles began to sell literary works and paintings to make ends meet. Her short stories appeared in national magazines such as Harper's Monthly and Lippincott's , and in 1905 she published Spirit of the Mountains, a nonfiction book about southern Appalachia. After the death of her three-year-old son from scarlet fever in 1913, the journals took a more somber turn as Miles documented the difficulties of mountain life, the plight of women in rural communities, the effect of disparities of class and wealth, and her own struggle with tuberculosis. Previously examined only by a handful of scholars, the journals contain both poignant and incisive accounts of nature and a woman's perspective on love and marriage, death customs, child raising, medical care, and subsistence on the land in southern Appalachia in the early twentieth century. With a foreword by Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, this edited selection of Emma Bell Miles's journals is illustrated with examples of her painting.
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Publisher
Ohio University Press
ISBN-10
0821420860
ISBN-13
9780821420867
eBay Product ID (ePID)
175286618
Product Key Features
Book Title
Once I Too HAD Wings : the Journals of EMMA BELL Miles, 1908-1918
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors, Diaries & Journals, Literary, American / General
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
1.3in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3525.I482z46 2014
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The triumphs and trials of writer-artist Emma Bell Miles will resonate with modern readers. Steven Cox's balanced introduction and careful editing of Miles's journals (1908--1918) provide context for a take on Appalachian life that was at once sympathetic and unromantic, prescient yet still elusive. Sadly the short life the Journal records also reveals the price of a deep ambivalence for tradition and modernity in an era eerily similar to our own." — Mark T. Banker, author of Appalachians All, Reading Miles's journals thirty-six years ago in the Oklahoma home of daughter Judith Miles Ford, I felt then the world must see her poignant observations of the natural and cultural environment of her Appalachia. Steven Cox's choices from Miles's personal writings reveal powerful insights of a woman who lived, loved, absorbed, and recorded her place more than 100 years past." — Grace Toney Edwards, Professor Emeritus of Appalachian Studies and English, Radford University, "A crucial, rare, and enlightening resource. This work has the potential to deepen our understanding of the challenges and rewards of Appalachian women writing."--Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, "Reading Miles's journals thirty-six years ago in the Oklahoma home of daughter Judith Miles Ford, I felt then the world must see her poignant observations of the natural and cultural environment of her Appalachia. Steven Cox's choices from Miles's personal writings reveal powerful insights of a woman who lived, loved, absorbed, and recorded her place more than 100 years past."--Grace Toney Edwards, Professor Emeritus of Appalachian Studies and English, Radford University, "A crucial, rare, and enlightening resource. This work has the potential to deepen our understanding of the challenges and rewards of Appalachian women writing." -- Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, "These writings, expertly collected by Cox, delve into Mile's life and observations on her family's challenging economic circumstances, her son's death from scarlet fever, and her own fight against tuberculosis, all transcribed in her trademark evocative prose."-- Appalachian Heritage, "The triumphs and trials of writer-artist Emma Bell Miles will resonate with modern readers. Steven Cox's balanced introduction and careful editing of Miles's journals (1908-1918) provide context for a take on Appalachian life that was at once sympathetic and unromantic, prescient yet still elusive. Sadly the short life the Journal records also reveals the price of a deep ambivalence for tradition and modernity in an era eerily similar to our own."--Mark T. Banker, author of Appalachians All
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Foreword by Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Walden's Ridge Chapter 2: Return to Walden's Ridge Chapter 3: Tragedy and Heartbreak Chapter 4: "I Must Be Free!" Chapter 5: Pine Breeze Sanitarium Chapter 6: A Brief Separation Chapter 7: The Good Gray Mother Epilogue Notes Index
Copyright Date
2014
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lccn
2014-000858
Dewey Decimal
818/.5203 B
Series
Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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