The Common Lot and Other Stories. Emma Bell Miles
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The Common Lot and Other Stories
The Common Lot and Other Stories
The Published Short Fiction, 1908–1921
EMMA BELL MILES
EDITED BY GRACE TONEY EDWARDS
Swallow Press
Ohio University Press
Athens
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© 2016 by Ohio University Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Miles, Emma Bell, 1879–1919, author. | Edwards, Grace Toney, editor.
Title: The common lot and other stories : the published short fiction, 1908–1921 / Emma Bell Miles ; edited by Grace Toney Edwards.
Other titles: Short stories
Description: Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press, Ohio University Press, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015044695| ISBN 9780804011730 (hardback) | ISBN 9780804011747 (pb) | ISBN 9780804040747 (pdf)
Subjects: | BISAC: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General. | LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General. | FICTION / General.
Classification: LCC PS3525 .I482 2016 | DDC 813/.52—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015044695
This book is dedicated to the memory of the Miles children,
Judith, Jean, Joe, Kitty, and Mark,
and to their living descendants.
contents
Introduction: The Published Short Stories of Emma Bell Miles, 1908–21
GRACE TONEY EDWARDS
Suggestions for Further Reading and Research
illustrations
Emma Bell Miles with husband Frank and twins in front of their tent home, summer 1903
Emma with children Judith, Kitty, Joe, and Jean, outside their house, summer 1908
Emma, the twins, and friends from Chattanooga, about 1910
Emma and her youngest children, Mirick and Kitty, summer 1911
Emma and the twins, Judith and Jean, summer 1913
Emma, probably 1914, age thirty-five
Pen-and-ink sketch of the bluff on Walden’s Ridge by Emma Bell Miles
Pen-and-ink postcard sketch of a cabin on Walden’s Ridge by Emma Bell Miles
Watercolor of a cabin and attached fence on Walden’s Ridge by Emma Bell Miles
Pen-and-ink postcard sketch of an open fireplace with cooking pot by Emma Bell Miles