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ISBN10: 1717201695
ISBN13: 9781717201690
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 20 2018
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781717201690
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 20 2018
Pages: 90
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
James Lane Allen (December 21, 1849 - February 18, 1925) was an American novelist and short story writer whose work, including the novel A Kentucky Cardinal, often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work is characteristic of the late-19th century local color era, when writers sought to capture the vernacular in their fiction. Allen has been described as Kentucky's first important novelist.James Lane Allen was born near Lexington, Kentucky to Richard and Helen Jane (Foster) Allen on December 21, 1849. Allen, the youngest child in the family, had four sisters Lydia, May, Sally, and Annie, and two brothers, John and Henry. Allen lived at the Scarlet Gate estate in Lexington in the late 1800s until age 22 years. Allen spent his youth in Lexington during the Antebellum era, the American Civil War, and the Reconstruction periods. His childhood experience heavily influenced his writing. He described living at Scarlet Gate in the introduction to A Kentucky Cardina
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