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Once I Too Had Wings: The Journals of Emma Bell Miles, 1908-1918

Once I Too Had Wings: The Journals of Emma Bell Miles, 1908-1918

Miles, Emma Bell

Paperback

Series: Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia

Biographies GeneralWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0821420879
ISBN13: 9780821420874
Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr
Published: Mar 11 2014
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

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.

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