Aunt Jane of Kentucky by Eliza Calvert Hall

"Aunt Jane of Kentucky" by Eliza Calvert Hall is a collection of nine short stories first published together in 1907. Set in rural western Kentucky during the late nineteenth century, the book features an elderly quilt-maker who shares her memories of southern life with a younger woman visitor. Through Aunt Jane's voice, the stories explore family, community, and women's experiences in rural America. The collection reached approximately one million readers and was even recommended by President Theodore Roosevelt in a 1908 speech. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Hall, Eliza Calvert, 1856-1935
Illustrator Strong, Beulah
Title Aunt Jane of Kentucky
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt_Jane_of_Kentucky
Credits Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Suzanne Shell, and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Reading Level Reading ease score: 84.1 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Domestic fiction
Subject Widows -- Fiction
Subject Older women -- Fiction
Subject Kentucky -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 26728
Release Date
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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