Once I Too Had Wings: The Journals of Emma Bell Miles, 1908-1918

by Emma Bell Miles

Book Overview

Emma Bell Miles (1879-1919) was a gifted writer, poet, naturalist, and artist with a keen perspective on Appalachian life and culture. She and her husband Frank lived on Walden's Ridge in southeast Tennessee, where they struggled to raise a family in the difficult mountain environment. Between 1908 and 1918, Miles kept a series of journals in which she recorded in beautiful and haunting prose the natural wonders and local customs of Walden's Ridge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821420879
• ISBN13: 9780821420874
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.4"