Mary Noailles Murfree - Wikipedia Mary Noailles Murfree From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Mary Noailles Murfree Born Mary Susan Murfree[1] (1850-01-24)January 24, 1850 near Murfreesboro, Tennessee Died July 31, 1922(1922-07-31) (aged 72) Murfreesboro, Tennessee Resting place Evergreen Cemetery, Murfreesboro Pen name Charles Egbert Craddock Occupation Writer Nationality United States Period 1884–1914 Subject Appalachian life Relatives Colonel Hardy Murfree (grandfather) Mary Noailles Murfree (January 24, 1850 – July 31, 1922) was an American fiction writer of novels and short stories who wrote under the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock.[2] She is considered by many to be Appalachia's first significant female writer and her work a necessity for the study of Appalachian literature, although a number of characters in her work reinforce negative stereotypes about the region. She has been favorably compared to Bret Harte and Sarah Orne Jewett, creating post-Civil War American local-color literature. The town of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is named after Murfree's great-grandfather Colonel Hardy Murfree, who fought in the Revolutionary War. Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 2.1 Fiction 2.2 Short fiction 3 See also 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External links Biography[edit] Murfree was born on her family's cotton plantation, Grantland, near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a location later celebrated in her novel, Where the Battle was Fought and in the town named after her great-grandfather, Colonel Hardy Murfree.[3] Her father was a successful lawyer of Nashville, and her youth was spent in both Murfreesboro and Nashville. From 1867 to 1869 she attended the Chegary Institute, a finishing school in Philadelphia.[citation needed] Murfree would spend her summers in Beersheba Springs.[4] For a number of years after the Civil War the Murfree family lived in St. Louis, returning in 1890 to Murfreesboro, where she lived until her death. Being lame from childhood, Murfree turned to reading the novels of Walter Scott and George Eliot. For fifteen successive summers the family stayed in Beersheba Springs in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee, giving her the opportunity to study the mountains and mountain people more closely. By the 1870s she had begun writing stories for Appleton's Journal under the penname of "Charles Egbert Craddock" and by 1878 she was contributing to the Atlantic Monthly. It was not until seven years later, in May 1885, that Murfree divulged that she was Charles Egbert Craddock to Thomas Bailey Aldrich, an editor at the Atlantic Monthly.[citation needed] Murfree visited the Montvale Springs resort near Knoxville, from 1886. Although she became known for the realism of her accounts, in fact she was from a wealthy family and would have had little contact with the local people while staying at the resorts.[5] She is buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Murfreesboro.[6] Works[edit] Fiction[edit] In the Tennessee Mountains, 1884 In the Tennessee Mountains (1884) (eight stories on the life and character of the Tennessee mountaineer)(e-book at Documenting the American South) Where the Battle Was Fought (1884) Down the Ravine (1885) The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains (1885)(e-book at Documenting the American South) In the Clouds (1886) The Despot of Broomsedge Cove (1888) The Story of Keedon Bluffs (1887) Abner Holden's Bound Boy (1890) In the "Stranger People's" Country (1891) His Vanished Star (1894) The Juggler (1897) The Story of Old Fort Loudon (1898) The Champion (1902) A Spectre of Power (1903) The Frontiersmen (1904) (e-book at Project Gutenberg) The Storm Centre (1905) The Amulet (1906) The Windfall (1907) The Fair Mississippian (1908) The Ordeal: A Mountain Romance of Tennessee (1912) The Story of Duciehurst: A Tale of the Mississippi (1914) Short fiction[edit] The Phantoms of the Footbridge and Other Stories (1895) The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories (1895) The Young Mountaineers (1897) The Bushwhackers and Other Stories (1899) Civil War Stories (contributor, 1900) The Raid of the Guerilla and Other Stories (1912) See also[edit] Literature of Tennessee References[edit] ^ Nashville 1933, Tennessee Records: Bible Records and Marriage Bonds, p. 22 ^ "Murfree, Mary Noailles". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1276. ^ Haywood, Marshall De Lancey; Samuel A'Court Ashe, Stephen B. Weeks, Charles L. Van Noppen (1905). Biographical History of North Carolina from Colonial Times to the Present. Greensboro, North Carolina: Charles L. Van Noppen. p. 314.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) ^ "Tennessee- Beersheba, TN". Images from Nostalgiaville. Nostalgiaville. Archived from the original on March 31, 2012. Retrieved November 4, 2011. ^ Martin, C. Brenden (2007). Tourism in the Mountain South: A Double-edged Sword. Univ. of Tennessee Press. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-57233-575-2. Retrieved December 22, 2013. ^ "Mary Noailles Murfree (1850 - 1922) - Find A Grave Memorial". Retrieved September 19, 2016.[non-primary source needed] Further reading[edit] Baskervill, William M. (1897). Charles Egbert Craddock. Nashville, Tenn.: Barbee & Smith. Harkins, E.F. & Charles H.L. Johnston (1902). "Charles Egbert Craddock." In: Little Pilgrimages Among the Women who have Written Famous Books. Boston: L.C. Page & Co., pp. 75–90. Vedder, Henry C. (1894). "Charles Egbert Craddock." In: American Writers Today. New York: Silver, Burdett and Company, pp. 171–186. External links[edit] Wikisource has original text related to this article: Woman of the Century/Mary Noailles Murfree Works by Mary Noailles Murfree at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Mary Noailles Murfree at Internet Archive Works by or about Charles Egbert Craddock at Internet Archive The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains free ebook in PDF, PDB and LIT formats Mary Noailles Murfree – bibliographical overview, description by a contemporary, links to works online Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Mary Noailles Murfree papers, 1877-1928 Authority control GND: 172280176 ISNI: 0000 0001 0830 1949 LCCN: n50027584 NLA: 35369257 NLI: 000406526 NTA: 070406073 SNAC: w6cc15qw SUDOC: 061050105 Trove: 928254 VIAF: 16014354 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n50027584 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary_Noailles_Murfree&oldid=999996393" Categories: 1850 births 1922 deaths 19th-century American novelists 20th-century American novelists American women novelists American women short story writers Appalachian writers People from Murfreesboro, Tennessee Novelists from Tennessee 20th-century American women writers 19th-century American women writers 19th-century American short story writers 20th-century American short story writers Hidden categories: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list All pages needing factual verification Wikipedia articles needing factual verification from April 2020 Use mdy dates from April 2020 All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from November 2011 Articles with unsourced statements from December 2013 Articles with Project Gutenberg links Articles with Internet Archive links Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLA identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLI identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Wikisource Languages فارسی Edit links This page was last edited on 13 January 2021, at 00:40 (UTC). 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