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| Title | In Buncombe County | |
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| Creator | Maria Louisa Pool (1841-1898) | |
| Alt. Creator | W.W. Fawcett, Illustrator | |
| Subject Keyword | Maria Louisa Pool ; Buncombe County, NC ; Asheville, NC ; doctors ; alcoholism ; neurasthenia ; medical ; literature, fiction ; | |
| Subject LCSH | Pool, Maria Louisa, 1841-1898 Buncombe County (N.C.) -- History -- Fiction North Carolina -- History -- Fiction |
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| Date | Date original: 1896 ; Date digital: 2007-12-29 | |
| Publisher | Publisher Original: Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1896 ; Digital Publisher: D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville , 2007 | |
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| Type | Source type: text ;illustrations | |
| Format | image/jpeg/text ; 295 p. 18 cm. ; UNCA copy: 2nd ed. Oct. 25, 1896 -- t.p. verso. | |
| Source | SpecColl PS2649.P4 I6 1896 [Library Use Only] | |
| Language | English | |
| Relation |
http://www.openlibrary.org/details/inbuncombecounty00poolrich
FULL TEXT available from the Open Library Alliance
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| Coverage | 1896 ; Buncombe County, North Carolina ; Asheville, North Carolina ; western North Carolina | |
| Rights | Public Domain | |
| Donor | Special Collections purchase | |
| Description | ||
| Acquisition | unknown | |
| Citation | Maria Louisa Pool. In Buncombe County, Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1896, held by the D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 | |
| Processed by | Special Collections staff, 2007 | |
| Last update | 2007-12-29 | |
| Biography | Maria Louisa Pool, born in 1841, was a New
York resident. She has sometimes been assigned to the "sentimental
school," however her work is witty, keenly tuned into character, finely
skilled at narrative. She has been compared to another wirter, Augusta
Larned, who wrote in a similar vein. As a native of New York, Maria Louisa
Pool's work was chosen by the Committee on Literature of the Board of
Women Managers of the State of New York to be included in the
Art
and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian
Exposition, Chicago, 1893. as part of the work of women in
literary clubs and classes. This work, published in 1896 would have come
after this honor.
She was a champion of human rights and spoke out against slavery early in her life, as did many in her circle in New York. Many of her stories show strong empathy for the rights of slave and also freedmen. It is interesting that though her fiction centers on women who are disadvantaged and whose voice and heart would not be heard were it not for the voices that women authors like Pool gave to the cause of human rights, she often bails out when class is at issue. Like John Fox Jr. and Frances Hodgson Burnett and Mary Noilles Murphree, she was very aware of class differences and often resolved her class conflicts, particularly those that resulted in romantic ties, by either killing one of the romantic parties, or by arranging for the mis-matched pair to consumate their relationship or to never cross their class barriers through marriage. Her story, " Told by an Octoroon" is particularly poignant and has strong parallels with the Appalachian women seen in Fox's and Murphree's fiction. During her day she was well respected and had a wide audience. This account written by and anonymous contributor to "Literary Chat," speaks to her reputation with her contemporaries: "One of the most prolific writers of high class fiction of the day is Miss Maria Louisa Pool, whose "Roweny" has achieved a far reaching reputation. Miss Pool has a serial story running almost constantly in the New York Tribune, with whose readers she is—and most deservedly—in high favor. Her stories, like Miss Wilkins's, are for the most part descriptive of the rural side of New England life." Anonymous. Literary Chat is part of World Public Library Consortia, Project Gutenberg. http://worldlibrary.net/eBooks/WorldeBookLibrary.com/litchat.htm Maria Louisa Pool died in 1898. |
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| Reviews | In a review of another of her romantic novels, Mrs. Gerald, in the the New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art. Kime 5, 1899, p. BRA6. Maria Louisa Pool's work is described -- "Miss Pool has her marked individuality, never more conspicuously shown than in "Mrs. Gerald." Judith sprang from degenerates. Her father was without principle and her mother silly, but the girl possessed those stronger and better traits which her parents lacked. One thing the author shows is a nice sense of humor. In this romance the dramatic and comic elements are happily blended." | |
| Links | http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/elliott/art/139.html | |
| Illustrations | Maria Louisa Pool often used W.A. Rogers, staff artist for Harper's Weekly as her illustrator. His work also appears frequently in other literature associated with western North Carolina. W.A. Rogers (1854-1931) was born in Ohio and became a valued member of the early Life magazine group. He followed Thomas Nast as the illustrator of political cartoons for Harper's Weekly. He was often given special assignments and traveled with writers to remote locations to record the area. | |
| Chapters of In Buncombe County | ||
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| I. | Waiting for Alick | |
| II. | More Waiting for Alick | |
| III. | On A North Carolina Mountain | |
| IV. | Ristus Leads the Way | |
| V. | A Bill of Particulars | |
| VI. | Poor Whites on the Mountains | |
| VII. | Ristus and Ole Pink's Baby | |
| VIII. | Thur Case Hoss | |
| IX. | Sequel to Thur Case Hoss | |
| X. | Ristus in "Trousies," and Jake Seeks Advice | |
| XI. | A Missing Bridegroom | |
| XII. | Capturing the Bridegroom | |
| XIII | The Phantom Portrait | |
| XIV. | The Man in the Ulster | |
| XV. | A Funeral as an Entertainment | |
| XVI. | The End of the Story | |
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