Background
Mary Noailles Murfree was born near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on the 24th of January 1850, the great-granddaughter of Col. Hardy Murfree. She was crippled in childhood by paralysis.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
book
In The Tennessee Mountains
("In the Tennessee Mountains," by Mary Noailles Murfree, d...)
"In the Tennessee Mountains," by Mary Noailles Murfree, depicted the scenery and people of the Tennessee mountains during the 19th century. At a time when local color fiction was much in vogue throughout the country, Murfree came to prominence as the most noted writer using the southern mountains as the setting for her fiction. "In the Tennessee Mountains," a collection of eight stories set in either the Cumberland Mountains or the Great Smoky Mountains, was Murfree's first book. Each of the stories had been published previously in the Atlantic Monthly under the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock. For years readers had been curious about the identity of the mysterious "Craddock." The Boston editors and publishers with whom Murfree corresponded knew the author only as "M. N. Murfree," and assumed that the writer was male. The secret was at last revealed in 1885, when Murfree, her sister, and father journeyed to Boston to meet with an astonished editor of the Atlantic Monthly. "In the Tennessee Mountains" has been criticized for its stereotyping of the mountaineer and its highly romanticized descriptions of the landscape. Almost every reader notices the wide gap between the tone and vocabulary of the narrator and the mountain dialect of her characters. Like many other local color writers, Murfree felt it necessary to provide as narrator a cultured, sophisticated intermediary, someone like the reader she hoped to reach. Despite the critics, "In the Tennessee Mountains" is an essential in the study of Appalachian literature.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1450539653/?tag=2022091-20
The Christmas Miracle 1911
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0082WWU92/?tag=2022091-20
In the "Stranger People's" Country (Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers)
(Book by Murfree, Mary Noailles)
Book by Murfree, Mary Noailles
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080328313X/?tag=2022091-20
The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains
(Mary Noailles Murfree, who used the pen name Charles Egbe...)
Mary Noailles Murfree, who used the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock, was a 19th and 20th century American writer whose contemporary fiction is still read today by people interested in depictions of life in Appalachia at the time.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1523460938/?tag=2022091-20
Charles Egbert Craddock
Edit Profile
also known as
Mary Noailles Murfree
Education
Mary Noailles Murfree attended school in Nashville and Philadelphia.
Career
Mary Noailles Murfree contributed to Appleton's Journal, and, first in 1878, to The Atlantic Monthly. No one, apparently, suspected that the author of these stories was a woman, and her identity was not disclosed until 1885, a year after the publication of her first volume of short stories, In the Tennessee Mountains. She deals mainly with the narrow, stern life of the Tennessee mountaineers, who, left behind in the advance of civilization, live amid traditions and customs, and speak a dialect, peculiarly their own; and her work abounds in exquisite descriptions of scenery. Among her other books are: Where the Battle was Fought (1884), a novel dealing with the old aristocratic southern life; Down the Ravine (1885) and The Story of Keedon Bluffs (1887) for young people; The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains (1885), a novel; In the Clouds (1886), a novel; The Despot of Broomsedge Cove (1888), a novel; In the " Stranger- People's" Country (1891); His Vanished Star (1894), a novel; The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories (1895); The Phantoms of the Footbridge and Other Stories (1895); The Young Mountaineers (1897), short stories; The Juggler (1897); The Story of Old Fort Loudon (1899); The Bushwhackers and Other Stories (1899); The Champion (1902); A Spectre of Power; The Frontiersman (1904); The Storm Centre (1905); The Amulet (1906); The Windfall (1907); and Fair Mississippian (1908).
Achievements
Works
book
-
The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains
(Mary Noailles Murfree, who used the pen name Charles Egbe...)
-
In The Tennessee Mountains
("In the Tennessee Mountains," by Mary Noailles Murfree, d...)
-
In the "Stranger People's" Country (Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers)
(Book by Murfree, Mary Noailles)
- The Christmas Miracle 1911
-
The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains
Connections
-
Born
-
Died
July 31, 1922 (aged 72) -
Nationality
American