Fair and Tender Ladies

Name: Fair and Tender Ladies
Author: Lee Smith

by Lee Smith

Woman's letter chronicle of love, betrayal, and survival in rural mountain life

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About the author

Lee Smith

Lee Smith is a North Carolina novelist who has written with warmth and comedy about Appalachian women's lives for more than fifty years. Oral History and Fair and Tender Ladies are her most celebrated works.

More by Lee Smith

Oral HistoryInterconnected voices reveal secrets of a West Virginia family across generations
Black Mountain BreakdownWoman's mental breakdown and recovery in rural Appalachia and psychiatric care
The Last GirlsWomen's friendship trip down the Mississippi River reunites them with their pasts
On Agate HillOrphan girl's nineteenth-century coming-of-age in a North Carolina plantation household