Talmadge, John E. Rebecca Latimer Felton: nine stormy decades and Corra Harris: lady of purpose, [19--?].

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Talmadge, John E. Rebecca Latimer Felton: nine stormy decades and Corra Harris: lady of purpose, [19--?].

The collection consists of two copies, typescript, of Rebecca Latimer Felton : nine stormy decades published by the University of Georgia Press, 1960, and one typescript of Corra Harris: lady of purpose, published by University of Georgia Press, 1968.

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Harris, Corra, 1869-1935

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"Novelist Corra White Harris was one of the most celebrated women from Georgia for nearly three decades in the early twentieth century. She is best known for her first novel, A Circuit Rider's Wife (1910), though she gained a national audience a decade before its publication. From 1899 through the 1920s, she published hundreds of essays and short stories and more than a thousand book reviews in such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, and esp...

Felton, Rebecca Latimer, 1835-1930

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Talmadge, John E.

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