Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, (1982.). Reissue of this lost masterpiece of realistic and feminist fiction, originally published in 1923 by Harcourt Brace. The story of Judith Pippinger, a young woman full of life, who is worn down by the monotonous life of drudgery of the small tenant farmer in the tobacco fields of Kentucky, a life Kelley experienced herself. As a young woman, Kelley went to New York where she became secretary to Upton Sinclair and briefly engaged to Sinclair Lewis (who was instrumental in getting this novel published originally), but after her second marriage to Fred Kelley, they left New Jersey and tried farming in Kentucky and later in the Imperial Valley in California. This edition…
Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, (1982.). Reissue of this lost masterpiece of realistic and feminist fiction, originally published in 1923 by Harcourt Brace. The story of Judith Pippinger, a young woman full of life, who is worn down by the monotonous life of drudgery of the small tenant farmer in the tobacco fields of Kentucky, a life Kelley experienced herself. As a young woman, Kelley went to New York where she became secretary to Upton Sinclair and briefly engaged to Sinclair Lewis (who was instrumental in getting this novel published originally), but after her second marriage to Fred Kelley, they left New Jersey and tried farming in Kentucky and later in the Imperial Valley in California. This edition includes an afterword by Charlotte Goodman and it appends a chapter - 'Billy's Birth' - deleted by Harcourt Brace in the original edition. 366 pp. ISBN: 0-935312-013.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Reissue of this lost masterpiece of realistic and feminist fiction, originally published in 1923 by Harcourt Brace. The story of Judith Pippinger, a young woman full of life, who is worn down by the monotonous life of drudgery of the small tenant farmer in the tobacco fields of Kentucky, a life Kelley experienced herself. As a young woman, Kelley went to New York where she became secretary to Upton Sinclair and briefly engaged to Sinclair Lewis (who was instrumental in getting this novel published originally), but after her second marriage to Fred Kelley, they left New Jersey and tried farming in Kentucky and later in the Imperial Valley…
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Reissue of this lost masterpiece of realistic and feminist fiction, originally published in 1923 by Harcourt Brace. The story of Judith Pippinger, a young woman full of life, who is worn down by the monotonous life of drudgery of the small tenant farmer in the tobacco fields of Kentucky, a life Kelley experienced herself. As a young woman, Kelley went to New York where she became secretary to Upton Sinclair and briefly engaged to Sinclair Lewis (who was instrumental in getting this novel published originally), but after her second marriage to Fred Kelley, they left New Jersey and tried farming in Kentucky and later in the Imperial Valley in California. This edition includes an introduction by Matthew J. Bruccoli, general editor of the Crosscurrents / Modern Fiction series. 333 pp. ISBN: 0-8093-05879.
New York: Random House, 1983. dj. Hardcover - Southern author's first book, set in a small tobacco farming community in North Carolina in 1937. A classic story of what happens when a handsome stranger comes to town, this is freshly told, and vivildy atmospheric. In her review, Eudora Welty called Shivers 'richly endowed and sure of her way.'. ISBN: 0-394-523881.
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