The Spirit of the Mountains and Select Works by Emma Bell Miles

Description: The Spirit of the Mountains and Select Works by Emma Bell Miles. Emma Bell Miles was a naturalist, an artist, and an author who lived most of her life in the southern Appalachian mountains. While Emma’s life was one of poverty and hard work, her determination, her faith and her extraordinary intellect allowed her to contend with— if not fully overcome— her adversity. She used her experience and talent to produce sketches, watercolors, short stories, poems, books— becoming nationally known— and she was beloved throughout and long after her lifetime. “Emma B. Miles, the author, has written of her Tennessee mountain people, among whom she was reared and whose lives she has shared, with perfect sincerity, and put what she has to say in a literary form singularly unaffected and appropriate. There is idealization, of course, but it consists not in softening and toning the details, but in the interpretation of what is behind and beneath the rough exterior. The sketches of mountaineer life— of the school, the cabin, the church; of the men’s work, of the women’s work, of mealtime, meeting time, stress of childbirth, the round of a primitive existence— are so convincingly transcripts of pictures from the writer’s own memory, so vividly fresh there, and so vividly conveyed, that you can feel the actuality of it— almost you can see the sunlight on the clearing and smell the supper bacon frying as you read.” -from a review of The Spirit of the Mountains by Henry Irving Brock in the New York Times, March 17, 1906

Price: 26 USD

Location: Sparta, North Carolina

End Time: 2024-10-13T18:33:04.000Z

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