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The Star In The Valley

The Star In The Valley 7^7^^¿7¿^TiSlí/^¿^^ Aj /wwwwwwwBll "SÄe was- hardly more human to Chevis than certain lissome little woodland flowers, the very names of which he did not know... " by Mary Noailles Murfree "The Star in the Valley" was first published in the Atlantic in 1878 and along with seven other stories was gathered into the volume In the Tennessee Mountains in 1884. Although the Southern Mountaineer had received considerable treatment in fiction prior to this, it was Mary Noailles Murfree, under the pseudonym of Charles Egbert Craddock, who first delineated him as a separate type. The Southern Mountaineer as Murfree saw him (often very superficially) persists in the fiction of the mountaineer even to the present. "The Star in the Valley" is not one of Murfree 's better stories, but it is shorter than most. Love between the native and the outsider, though too sentimentally treated in this story, is a motif common in the fiction of the area. For more detailed studies of Murfree 's achievements in mountain fiction see Nathalia Wright's "Introduction" to the reprint of In the Tennessee Mountains (Tennesseana Editions, University of Tennessee Press, 1970), Cratis Williams' "Appalachia in Fiction" {Appalachian Heritage, Fall 1976), or his http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

The Star In The Valley

Appalachian Review , Volume 6 (2) – Jan 8, 1978

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7^7^^¿7¿^TiSlí/^¿^^ Aj /wwwwwwwBll "SÄe was- hardly more human to Chevis than certain lissome little woodland flowers, the very names of which he did not know... " by Mary Noailles Murfree "The Star in the Valley" was first published in the Atlantic in 1878 and along with seven other stories was gathered into the volume In the Tennessee Mountains in 1884. Although the Southern Mountaineer had received considerable treatment in fiction prior to this, it was Mary Noailles Murfree, under the pseudonym of Charles Egbert Craddock, who first delineated him as a separate type. The Southern Mountaineer as Murfree saw him (often very superficially) persists in the fiction of the mountaineer even to the present. "The Star in the Valley" is not one of Murfree 's better stories, but it is shorter than most. Love between the native and the outsider, though too sentimentally treated in this story, is a motif common in the fiction of the area. For more detailed studies of Murfree 's achievements in mountain fiction see Nathalia Wright's "Introduction" to the reprint of In the Tennessee Mountains (Tennesseana Editions, University of Tennessee Press, 1970), Cratis Williams' "Appalachia in Fiction" {Appalachian Heritage, Fall 1976), or his

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Appalachian ReviewUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 1978

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