Editor Grace Toney Edwards collects and introduces 17 short stories by Miles (1879-1919) that were published in prestigious magazines during the first two decades of the 20th century. She
presented America with the voice of a woman from Appalachia in what is now recognized as fictionalized ethnography about Walden’s Ridge Tennessee, with a current of feminism and social
criticism beneath the surface. The title story is of a young women trapped keeping her father’s house, who realizes that her only escape is to do the same for a husband. Her own drawings and
photographs of her are among the illustrations. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
