AUNT JANE OF KENTUCKY. With Frontispiece and Page Decorations by Beulah Strong

pp. 283 +Plus 1 frontis and head/tailpiece decorations. 12mo. 200mm. Original publisher's pictorial full green cloth binding lettered in cream and decorated in brown, black, and peach. Cover has floral decorations framing an older woman sitting working on a piece of fabric. Spine lettered and decorated similarly. Cover colors are bright but board lightly faded. Spine faded. Some wear to base and head of spine. Corners bumped. Slight Fading to rear board near top edge. Manuscript ownership of 'W.T. Llehuff, Glen Rock PA' on inside pastedown. Contents clean. Hardbound. Very Good. Eliza Caroline 'Lida' Obenchain, (1856-1935) was an American author, women's rights advocate, and suffragist from Bowling Green, Kentucky. Lida Obenchain, writing under the pen name Eliza Calvert Hall, was widely known early in the twentieth century for her short stories featuring an elderly widowed woman, 'Aunt Jane', who plainly spoke her mind about the people she knew and her experiences in the rural south. Beulah Strong (1866-1951) was an artist and illustrator. She Studied at the Academie Julien France from 1887-1892 where she was the classmate of Cincinnati artist Elizabeth Nourseand. She taught art at Potter College in Bowling Green Ky, from 1892-1901 and Smith College as an associate professor of art from 1907-1923. She lived in Italy after she retired, until WWII broke out. She is known for her work on Hall's novels, 'Aunt Jane of Kentucky' and 'Land of Long Ago.' NW62