The Crucial Moment

Mary Noailles Murfree (January 24, 1850 – July 31, 1922), was an American fiction writer acclaimed for her local color stories featuring the Appalachian region of Tennessee. She initially wrote under the masculine pen name Charles Egbert Craddock to mask her gender and ensure her works received fair consideration in a male-dominated literary market of her time. Murfree's expertise in portraying th...