Mary Noailles Murfree 1850-1922

Mary Noailles Murfree 1850-1922 is a Tennessee historical marker in in Beersheba Springs, Grundy County.

Grundy Co, TN 56, in Beersheba Springs

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Described as "Tennessee's foremost woman writer of fiction." she used the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock for over thirty years. The Tennessee mountains and the Civil War were used as the settings for her novels and short stories, and she gathered material during summers spent here in her youth and early adult years. Her first major work was published in 1878, and she continued to write until 1914.

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1862 · Johnson's Kentucky & Tennessee (1862) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Kentucky And Tennessee (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1878 · (Map 6 - Indian Territory, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1891 · Middle Tennessee Campaign. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1895 · Sewanee, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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