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The Mountain Woman: In Fact and Fiction of the Early Twentieth Century

The Mountain Woman: In Fact and Fiction of the Early Twentieth Century The Mountain Woman: In Fact and Fiction of the Early Twentieth Century Danny Miller Appalachian Heritage, Volume 7, Number 1, Winter 1979, pp. 15-21 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1979.0041 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/442013/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:26 GMT from JHU Libraries 15 The Mountain Woman IN FACT AND FICTION OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY By Danny Miller PART III And you, my mother, who will stack by you? In beauty—yes—others are beautiful And you are not in flesh and fancy guise. But you have lived a life so rich and full, Few worldly beauties stack beside of you. In the preceeding pages I have described the mountain woman as she was pre- sented in the sociological and historical fact of the early twentieth century and in the fiction of Mary N. Murfree, the first writer to depict the fully crystallized type in literature. It remains, I think, to see how accurate these descriptions were, just how close to reality the stereotype came, insofar as that is possible at this late date. There is always some truth in a stereotype; nor can one dispel the myths of a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

The Mountain Woman: In Fact and Fiction of the Early Twentieth Century

Appalachian Review , Volume 7 (1) – Jan 8, 2014

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The Mountain Woman: In Fact and Fiction of the Early Twentieth Century Danny Miller Appalachian Heritage, Volume 7, Number 1, Winter 1979, pp. 15-21 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1979.0041 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/442013/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:26 GMT from JHU Libraries 15 The Mountain Woman IN FACT AND FICTION OF THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY By Danny Miller PART III And you, my mother, who will stack by you? In beauty—yes—others are beautiful And you are not in flesh and fancy guise. But you have lived a life so rich and full, Few worldly beauties stack beside of you. In the preceeding pages I have described the mountain woman as she was pre- sented in the sociological and historical fact of the early twentieth century and in the fiction of Mary N. Murfree, the first writer to depict the fully crystallized type in literature. It remains, I think, to see how accurate these descriptions were, just how close to reality the stereotype came, insofar as that is possible at this late date. There is always some truth in a stereotype; nor can one dispel the myths of a

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 2014

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