Sketches of Alabama - Softcover

Duffee, Mary Gordon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081735011X ISBN 13: 9780817350116

Publisher: University Alabama Press, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

“This gem [is] not only prime history, but a highly entertaining account of the characters and the life of the ante-bellum Jefferson County—of Jones Valley and the hill country whose riches of coal and iron gave birth to Birmingham. . . . A fascinating adventure in early Alabama history.” —Alabama Review

About this edition

• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 081735011X
• ISBN 13: 9780817350116
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112
• Editor: Nabers Jane Porter, Brown Virginia Pounds