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Aunt Jane of Kentucky

Aunt Jane of Kentucky is a collection of nine short stories written by Eliza Calvert Obenchain under the pseudonym Eliza Calvert Hall. It is set in rural Kentucky in the late 19th century, and the story revolves around the elderly quilt-maker Aunt Jane and her memoirs of life in the deep rural south. It is said that President Theodore Roosevelt recommended to men that they read the work to understand how to regard their female counterparts.

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  • "Aunt Jane of Kentucky is a collection of nine short stories written by Eliza Calvert Obenchain under the pseudonym Eliza Calvert Hall. It is set in rural Kentucky in the late 19th century, and the story revolves around the elderly quilt-maker Aunt Jane and her memoirs of life in the deep rural south. It is said that President Theodore Roosevelt recommended to men that they read the work to understand how to regard their female counterparts."@en
  • "Well known for her gentle folk wisdom, the elderly fictional Aunt Jane vividly describes a picturesque and almost vanished way of life in the rural South of the last century. Her words recall lavish Sunday dinners, courtships, quilting bees, church meetings, and county fair competitions. Yet Aunt Jane of Kentucky is more than a collection of reminiscences about the region of Western Kentucky where Eliza Caroline Obenchain (who published under the name Eliza Calvert Hall) was born and raised. A dedicated suffragist, Obenchain worked to win rights for women in the areas of property ownership and divorce. Now modern readers can become acquainted with the strong women of these tales."@en
  • "Well known for her gentle folk wisdom, the elderly fictional Aunt Jane vividly describes a picturesque and almost vanished way of life in the rural South of the last century. Her words recall lavish Sunday dinners, courtships, quilting bees, church meetings, and county fair competitions. Yet Aunt Jane of Kentucky is more than a collection of reminiscences about the region of Western Kentucky where Eliza Caroline Obenchain (who published under the name Eliza Calvert Hall) was born and raised. A dedicated suffragist, Obenchain worked to win rights for women in the areas of property ownership and divorce. Now modern readers can become acquainted with the strong women of these tales."
  • """You see, some folks has albums to put folks' pictures in to remember them by, and some folks has a book and lorites down the things that happen every day so they won't forget them; but, honey, these quilts is my albums and my diaries.""Aunt Jane is a fictional character well known for her gentle folk wisdom and her vivid descriptions of a picturesque and almost vanished way of life in the rural South of the last century. Her words recall lavish Sunday dinners, courtships, quilting bees, church meetings, and county fair competitions. Yet Aunt Jane of Kentucky is more than a collection of rem."@en

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  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Fiction"
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