by Mary Gordon Duffee
edited by Jane Porter Nabers and Virginia Pounds Brown
University of Alabama Press, 1970
Paper: 978-0-8173-5011-6 | eISBN: 978-0-8173-8275-9 | Cloth: 978-0-8173-5311-7
Library of Congress Classification F332.J4D84 1970
Dewey Decimal Classification 917.6178036

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ABOUT THIS BOOK


Mary Gordon Duffee's father, Matthew Duffee was born in Ireland and immigrated to Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1823. In Tuscaloosa he operated a popular tavern, and he later bought a resort hotel at Blount Springs. Mary Duffee was born in Alabama in 1840 and spent many summers with her family at the resort. It was the journey to and from Blount Springs that inspired Duffee's best-known work, Sketches of Alabama, which originally appeared as fifty-nine articles in the Birmingham Weekly Iron Age in 1886 and 1887. She also contributed articles to several out-of-state newspapers, wrote guide books, advertising copy, and poetry. She died in 1920. This collection contains typescripts of some of Mary Gordon Duffee's Iron Age columns "Sketches of Alabama," manuscripts of seven of Duffee's poems, a typed biographical sketch of Duffee, undated, and Duffee's obituary from the Birmingham Age-Herald.