'way Down In Lonesome Cove

Mary Noailles Murfree (1850–1922), known by her pen name Charles Egbert Craddock, was a distinguished American novelist and short story writer who contributed significantly to the local color movement in literature. Murfree specialized in depicting the lives and dialects of the inhabitants of the Southern Appalachians. Born on January 24, 1850, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to a prominent family, he...