A fascinating blend of art, literature, and history, Southern Women, Southern Landscapes: Cultural Reflections on the Garden, 1870-1970 (University of Mississippi Press, 2026) by Judith W. Page and Elise L. Smith offers a richly researched and original exploration of the intersection between gardening and creative expression. The authors’ extensive scholarship, combined with the book’s thoughtful […]
“Southern Women, Southern Landscapes: Cultural Reflections on the Garden, 1870–1970” by Judith W. Page and Elise L. Smith
September 9, 2026 by Leave a Comment
“Miss Dreamsville and the Lost Heiress of Collier County,” by Amy Hill Hearth
January 20, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Daniel James Sundahl There are ladies with stories to tell, maiden ladies, of course, but also ladies with worldly experience, oral histories for sure, and in the south the stories are most fun when they rub against one another, meandering down and along rivulets until collecting in a main stream. I recall, for […]
Crossing the Creek: The Literary Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, by Anna Lillios
December 29, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Philip K. Jason Crossing the Creek, by Anna Lillios, is a dual biography and critical study placing side by side two amazing women. Subtitled “The Literary Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,” the book sets into revealing tension the ways each woman made herself into an artist by finding, and […]