{"product_id":"the-quare-women-a-story-of-the-kentucky-mountains-paperback","title":"The Quare Women: A Story of the Kentucky Mountains - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLucy Furman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRebecca Gayle Howell\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Katherine Pettit and May Stone arrived in the rural Appalachian mountains of eastern Kentucky to engage in social settlement work in the late 1800s, they were unmarried outsiders, living in pitched tents on the side of a hill, and perceived as odd, peculiar--and \"quare\" (the local pronunciation of \"queer\"). Yet these strong, capable educators wanted to \"learn all we can and teach all we can,\" and in doing so would persevere to establish the Hindman Settlement School in 1902. When Lucy Furman arrived at the school five years later, she was already an accomplished writer, but used her two decades of living and working at the school as fruitful and prolific inspiration for her beloved novels. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted for the first time since 1941, this lightly fictionalized account of Pettit's and Stone's entrances into the Hindman community offers the contemporary reader a unique look at this country's early rural\/urban divide. From the time of its first publication in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e to the last edition of the bound book, \u003ci\u003eThe Quare Women\u003c\/i\u003e was a big success. Readers loved the book's dramatic adventure and romance, as well as the real-life research that Furman used to create the story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo this day, the Hindman Settlement School believes in \"honoring the past, improving the present, and planning for the bright and colorful future of Central Appalachia.\" This book endures as a lasting testament to the spirit and legacy of these trailblazing women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eLucy Furman\u003c\/b\u003e (1870-1958) was a celebrated American novelist of the early twentieth century, and Hindman Settlement School's first director of grounds, gardens, and livestock. Her fiction offered a rare look at Kentucky mountain culture from within its agrarian economy, significantly influencing future generations of Appalachian writers. In her lifetime, she wrote five novels and a collection of stories; she also became an animal rights activist on the national stage and was instrumental in Kentucky's legislative ban of steel traps. \u003cb\u003eRebecca Gayle Howell\u003c\/b\u003e's most recent book is \u003ci\u003eAmerican Purgatory, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eselected by Don Share for Great Britain's 2016 Sexton Prize and named a must-read collection by Poetry London, The Millions, and the Courier-Journal. Her awards include fellowships from United States Artists, the Carson McCullers Center, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Howell serves as the poetry editor for \u003ci\u003eOxford American \u003c\/i\u003eand is the James Still Writer-in-Residence at Hindman Settlement School.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 04, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47472573841629,"sku":"9781950564033","price":25.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/NB0Rd23C0M9781950564033.webp?v=1784621976","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-quare-women-a-story-of-the-kentucky-mountains-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}