The Common Lot and Other Stories. Emma Bell Miles

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      7. Warfel and Orians, xxiii.

      8. Emma Bell Miles, letter to Anna Ricketson, March 4, 1907, Chattanooga Public Library, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Ricketson lived in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and had become a friend to Miles following the publication of Miles’s poem, “After Reading Thoreau.” The two corresponded until near the end of Miles’s life, though they never met in person. Emma’s letters to Ricketson have been preserved; forty-four originals are in the Chattanooga Public Library.

      9. Emma Bell Miles, letter to an unnamed correspondent, dated January 15, 1913 [1914], Hindman Settlement School Archive, Hindman, Kentucky. Facts within the letter and contextual evidence indicate the date should be 1914. I am grateful to Professor David Whisnant, retired from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for unearthing the Hindman letter and sharing it with me.

      10. Henry D. Shapiro, Appalachia on Our Mind (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978), 18–31. The following sketch of Appalachia’s people is partially based on Shapiro’s study. It is necessarily simplistic because of the brief space I have allotted to it.

      11. Miles, letter to Anna Ricketson, April 5, 1907.

      12. Miles, letters to Anna Ricketson, March 31, 1907; April 5, 1907.

      13. I have adopted James Moffett’s terms from “Kinds and Orders of Discourse,” in Teaching the Universe of Discourse (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968).

      14. Emma Bell Miles, “The Common Lot,” Harper’s Monthly Magazine 118 (December 1908): 149.

      15. Ibid., 151, 152, 154.

      16. John G. Cawelti, Adventure, Mystery, and Romance (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976), 262.

      17. Emma Bell Miles, “The Broken Urn,” Putnam’s Magazine 5 (February 1909): 580.

      18. Ibid., 578, 579.

      19. Ibid., 580.

      20. Miles most likely used her sister-in-law Laura Miles Hatfield as model for the young mother who could not adequately breastfeed her baby. Laura and her husband suffered the loss of several infants, all of whom are buried in a row in Fairmount Cemetery in Signal Mountain, Tennessee. One of these was named for Emma.

      21. Emma Bell Miles, “The Dulcimore,” Harper’s Monthly Magazine 119 (November 1909): 952.

      22. Ibid., 954.

      23. Ibid., 954, 956.

      24. Ibid., 953.

      25. Emma Bell Miles, “Three Roads and a River,” Harper’s Monthly Magazine 121 (November 1910): 889.

      26. Emma Bell Miles, Journal, I, July 1909. Cox, 39.

      27. Emma Bell Miles, “Flower of Noon,” The Craftsman 21 (January 1912): 394.

      Emma Bell, age twenty-one, shortly before her marriage (photograph in editor’s collection; also in Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Frank Miles, age twenty-three, about the time of his marriage (Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Emma Bell Miles with husband Frank and twin daughters, Judith and Jean, in front of their tent home, summer 1903 (photograph in editor’s collection; also in Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Emma with children, Judith, Kitty, Joe, and Jean, outside the home Frank built, summer 1908 (photograph in editor’s collection; also in Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Emma, the twins, and friends from Chattanooga who had come to visit on Walden’s Ridge, about 1910 (Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Emma and her youngest children, Mirick (Mark) and Kitty, summer 1911 (Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Emma and the twins, Judith and Jean, summer 1913 (photograph in editor’s collection; also in Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Emma, probably 1914, age thirty-five—newspaper advertisement for a lecture author was giving (photograph in editor’s collection; also in Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Pen-and-ink sketch of the bluff on Walden’s Ridge by Emma Bell Miles (Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Pen-and-ink postcard sketch of a cabin on Walden’s Ridge by Emma Bell Miles (Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Watercolor of a cabin and attached fence on Walden’s Ridge by Emma Bell Miles (Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Pen-and-ink postcard sketch of an open fireplace with cooking pot on Walden’s Ridge by Emma Bell Miles (Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

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