Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Elizabeth Madox Roberts was a Kentucky novelist of lyrical power whose The Time of Man is a masterwork of Southern Appalachian fiction. Her prose style, influenced by Virginia Woolf, gives interior experience an almost musical texture.
Works
- The Time of ManNovel tracing a tenant farmer's daughter's coming of age and struggle
- The Great MeadowHistorical novel of pioneers establishing settlements in frontier Kentucky
- A Buried Treasure
- He Sent Forth a RavenNovel of a rural woman's isolation and secret hope
- Black Is My Truelove's HairNovel exploring rural Kentucky life and intimate human connection