In the Tennessee Mountains

1850 - July 31 (1) 1922) was an American fiction writer of novels and short stories who wrote under the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock. She is considered by many to be Appalachia's first significant female writer and her work a necessity for the study of Appalachian liter (1) a location later celebrated in her novel (1) 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 (1) American and English Fiction and Essays (1) and her youth was spent in both Murfreesboro and Nashville. (1) Appalachia (2) Appalachian Fiction (1) CD 2 TN (1) Colonel Hardy Murfree. Her father was a successful lawyer of Nashville (1) Color Writers (1) creating post-Civil War American local-color literature. The town of Murfreesboro (1) Crew's Library (1) fiction (2) Fiction - Stories (1) Grantland (1) is named after Murfree's great-grandfather Colonel Hardy Murfree (1) labels (1) literature (1) Main (1) Mary Noailles Murfree (January 24 (1) near Murfreesboro (1) short stories (1) Smokies (1) Tennessee (4) West (1) Where the Battle was Fought and in the town named after her great-grandfather (1) who fought in the Revolutionary War.Murfree was born on her family's cotton plantation (1)