Kay K. Moss

Background

There is no information, where and when Kay K. Moss was born.

Education

Kay K. Moss graduated from Duke University.

Career

Kay K. Moss has made the study of eighteenth-century domestic life the center of her career. She has written books on the foods, decorative ornaments, and folk medicines of the rural South during that time period, and she also works as the director of the Eighteenth-Century Backcountry Lifeways Studies programs at the Schiele Museum of Natural History in Gastonia, North Carolina.

Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820 is one of Moss’s books. Moss spent fifteen years researching this volume. In the archives of southern universities and historical societies, she found twelve handwritten journals kept by men and women from the rural regions of North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee, as well as a variety of letters and other documents, describing how common ailments would have been treated in Revolutionary America.

Achievements

• Kay K. Moss is best known as the author of Southern Folk Medicine, 1750 - 1820. Her works received high praise from critics.

Works

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  • Seeking the Historical Cook: Exploring Eighteenth-Century Southern Foodways

    (Seeking the Historical Cook is a guide to historical cook...)

    2013
  • Southern Folk Medicine 1750-1820

    (Southern Folk Medicine, 1750-1820 explores methods of cur...)

    1999
  • The Backcountry Housewife 1985
  • A Backcountry Herbal of Plants Both Wild and Cultivated Likely to Be Found in Dooryards and Kitchen Gardens in Frontier Communities of the 18th Century 1993
  • Decorative Motifs: From the Southern Backcountry, 1750-1825 2001
  • Journey to the Piedmont Past 2000

References

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