[Gutenberg 61201] • Weeds
- Authors
- Kelley, Edith Summers
- Publisher
- The Feminist Press at CUNY
- Tags
- feminism , tobacco farmers -- kentucky -- fiction , farm life -- kentucky -- fiction , classics , tobacco farms -- kentucky -- fiction , rural women -- kentucky -- fiction , kentucky -- fiction
- ISBN
- 9781558611542
- Date
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.40 MB
- Lang
- en
First published in 1923, *Weeds* is set amid the tobacco tenant farms of rural Kentucky. This pioneering naturalist novel tells the story of a hard-working, spirited young woman who finds herself in a soul-destroying battle with the imprisoning duties of motherhood and of managing an impoverished household. The novel is particularly noteworthy for its heartbreaking depiction of a woman who suffers not from a lack of love, but from an unrequited longing for self-expression and freedom.