The Despot of Broomsedge Cove

Name: The Despot of Broomsedge Cove
Author: Mary Noailles Murfree

by Mary Noailles Murfree

Novel of a tyrant who rules over a remote mountain community through fear

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Mary Noailles Murfree

Writing as Charles Egbert Craddock, Mary Noailles Murfree was the leading voice of Tennessee mountain local color fiction, capturing Appalachian dialect and landscape with remarkable authenticity. Her disclosure of her true identity shocked the literary world.

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