The Story of Duciehurst: A Tale of the Mississippi

Mary Noailles Murfree (1850–1922), an American fiction writer, was renowned for her vivid portrayal of the Tennessee mountain people and the Appalachian region. Writing under the pseudonym Charles Egbert Craddock, Murfree concealed her identity and gender, which allowed her to gain notice in a male-dominated literary market. Her keen observations and regionalist style were conveyed with a fidelity...