Sketches Of Alabama: Being An Account Of The Journey From Tuscaloosa To Blount Springs Through Jefferson County On The Old Stage Roads, Now First Published In Book Form Project Muse Upcc Books

Mary Gordon Duffee's father, Matthew Duffee was born in Ireland and immigrated to Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1823. In Tuscaloosa he operated a popular tavern, and he later bought a resort hotel at Blount Springs. Mary Duffee was born in Alabama in 1840 and spent many summers with her family at the resort. It was the journey to and from Blount Springs that inspired Duffee's best-known work, Sketches of Alabama , which originally appeared as fifty-nine articles in the Birmingham Weekly Iron Age in 1886 and 1887. She also contributed articles to several out-of-state newspapers, wrote guide books, advertising copy, and poetry. She died in 1920. This collection contains typescripts of some of Mary Gordon Duffee's Iron Age columns "Sketches of Alabama," manuscripts of seven of Duffee's poems, a typed biographical sketch of Duffee, undated, and Duffee's obituary from the Birmingham Age-Herald. Prepared For The Press, With Introd. And Notes, By Virginia Pounds Brown And Jane Porter Nabers. Illustrated With Advertisements From The Jones Valley Times Of 1854. Based On A Series Of 59 Articles Originally Published Under The Same Title In The Weekly Iron Age (birmingham, Ala.) From 1885 Through 1887. Includes Bibliographical References. Novel, memoir, and anti-memoir, The Trouble with Being Born depicts the lives of Frances and Joe, husband and wife. Told in their own alternating voices, they recall their lives, separately and together, and the divergent trajectories of their origins and aspirations