Eliza Calvert Hall

In 1907, author, poet, essayist, and folk art historian Eliza Calvert Hall (1856-1935) published Aunt Jane of Kentucky, a collection of stories about rural life infused with the spirit and gentle good humor of its elderly narrator, Aunt Jane. The book and several sequels achieved wide popularity, reaching an estimated one million readers in her lifetime, and placed Hall in the front ranks of "e;lo...