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Edith Summers Kelley

Born

in Canada

April 28, 1884

Died

June 09, 1956

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Edith Summers Kelley (April 28, 1884 – June 9, 1956) was a Canadian-born author who lived and worked in the United States, and is best known for her 1923 novel Weeds (1923), set in the hills of Kentucky.

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Average rating: 3.94 · 199 ratings · 25 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Weeds by Edith Summers Kelley, Charlotte Margolis Goodman (Afterword) 3.97 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 1923 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil's Hand by Edith Summers Kelley, Matthew J. Bruccoli (Afterword) 3.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1974 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Quotes by Edith Summers Kelley (?)

“The main trouble with Bill was that along with nine-tenths of the rest of humanity, he had missed his calling.”
― Edith Summers Kelley, Weeds

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“...from the big tobacco barns there welled forth a fragrance that was for these Kentuckians, the soul of autumn. Oozing out into the sunshine from every crack in the great structures, it exhilarated like an elixir, like a long draught of some rich, spicy wine.”
― Edith Summers Kelley, Weeds

tags: tobacco, tobacco-farming

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“Hain't life woth livin', Uncle Jabez?" she asked. He laughed a short, harsh laugh and fell silent.

"Waal, I dunno, Judy," he said at last, meditatively shifting his quid of tobacco. "I reckon it makes a big diff'rence who you live it with an' a bigger diff'rence yet what work yuh lay yer hand to. Both o' them things, as I see it, is a matter of luck.”
― Edith Summers Kelley, Weeds

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What shall we read in January, 2020? Pre 1980.

The Golden Apples, by Eudora Welty

18 votes 31.6%

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men / A Death in the Family / Shorter Fiction, by James Agee

13 votes 22.8%

Pudd'nhead Wilson, by Mark Twain

8 votes 14.0%

At Home in Mitford, by Jan Karon

7 votes 12.3%

Weeds, Edith Summers Kelley

6 votes 10.5%

Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica, by Zora Neale Hurston

5 votes 8.8%

57 total votes

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