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The Legend of Mammy Jane: An Uneducated Girl Becomes the Lady of the Manor in Appalachia - Softcover
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First published over 20 years ago, this West Virginia classic is available once again. It is the story of Mammy Jane, a 17-year old girl who marries a widower with five children. It s an amazing story of romance, hardship, devotion, hard work, grief, and love of family. The epic spans several generations and gives an accurate account of life in West Virginia during and after the Civil War. When Jane s new husband goes to fight in the war, she is left to run the household. Starting with next to nothing, Jane teaches herself what she needs to know to raise a family, build a home, and eventually become a prosperous landowner. The book includes authentic and humorous remedies and sayings. It explains traditional rituals of the day including burials, birthings, and weddings. This is a story you will never forget.
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- PublisherSibyl Jarvis Pischke
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0960853227
- ISBN 13 9780960853229
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages405
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ISBN 10: 0960853227
ISBN 13: 9780960853229
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Seller: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 405 Pages. Coyright 1995 is given. ISBN 0870124285 is listed for a hardcover edition but other publication details are not available. The cover shows very minor wear and has a slighly turned up corner. Otherwise an As New book iwth flawless interior text pages. This book is a ficitonalized biograhy of the authors grandmother Labana Jane Murphy who married Thomas Jarvis in 1867. Labana Jane died in 1941. Pischke's book is very popular among the locals in the area of Oka West Virginia hill country especially among her descendents whose numbers also seem to be legend. The Legend of Mammy Jane is a rollicking, robust, romantic story of witchcraft, rape, birth, and death. Taking place before the Civil War, in the Mountains of Virginia that was to become West Virginia during the strife. Authentic hillbilly remedies, sayings, and customs are highlighted throughout. It's a fast-moving story, something happening on every page to move the reader on to the next. The story is of a young girl of questionable parentage, who at the age of seventeen marries a widower with five children, and of her journey to the log cabin home with a ready-made family and the bare necessities to survive in the wilderness. It is a time of joy; hardship, courage, grief, and frustrations as her new husband enlists in the Union army leaving his young wife the responsibility of his family and the care of the homestead. It tells of the climb from an uneducated girl to become known as The Lady of the Manor. Mammy Jane's big white house still stands today in the valley where she struggled long ago. The cemetary on the hill is where several generations have shed their tears as they laid their loved ones to rest, and where Mammy Jane now lies. The call of the whippoorwill is still heard down by the creek. They are all gone now Mammy Jane, her Tom, and the children. On the hill in the burying place when the wind whistles just right through the Old Cedar Tree, it seems you can hear her call-Oh, Will! fetch a bucket of cool water from the spring. Seller Inventory # 14525
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