Eliza Calvert Hall

Eliza Calvert Hall
Eliza Calvert Hall, born in 1856, was an American author and women's rights advocate known for her vivid depictions of Southern life. Her most famous work, "Aunt Jane of Kentucky" (1907), is a collection of short stories highlighting the wisdom and experiences of rural Southern women. Hall used her writing to explore themes of female empowerment and to critique societal expectations of women in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Beyond her fiction, she was also a strong supporter of women's suffrage and used her platform to advance the cause.

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SALLY ANN'S EXPERIENCE ome right in and set down. I was jest wishin' I had somebody to talk to. Take that chair right by the door so's you can get the breeze." And Aunt Jane beamed at me over her silver-rimmed spectacles and hitched her own chair a little to one side, in order to give me the full benefit of the wind that was blowing softly through the white-curtained window, and... more...

A RIDE TO TOWN "Make haste, child," called Aunt Jane; "there's mighty little time between dinner and sundown, and if we're goin' to town we'd better be startin'." Aunt Jane came out of the house, drawing on a pair of silk gloves. She was arrayed in her best gown of black alpaca, a silk-fringed cape covered her shoulders, her poke bonnet was draped with a veil of... more...