Elizabeth Madox Roberts
Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, 1886-1941, American poet and novelist, b. Perryville, Ky., grad. Univ. of Chicago, 1921. She is best known for her novels and stories of the Kentucky mountain people, whose dialect and customs she carefully represented. All her work is distinguished by the beauty and rhythm of her prose. Her novels include The Time of Man (1926), My Heart and My Flesh (1927), Jingling in the Wind (1928), The Great Meadow (1930), and Black Is My Truelove's Hair (1938). Some of her short stories are collected in The Haunted Mirror (1932) and Not by Strange Gods (1941). Her volumes of poetry include Under the Tree (1922) and Song in the Meadow (1940).
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Works by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
(1881-1941)
| 1926 | The Time of Man. Roberts's first novel introduces her characteristic subject of rural life in her native Kentucky. The story concerns the struggles of a down-and-out sharecropper family that must contend with a charge of barn burning. Roberts had previously published the poetry collections In the Great Steep's Garden (1915) and Under the Tree (1922). |
| 1927 | My Heart and My Flesh. Roberts's second novel is a psychological study of a white Kentucky woman driven to the edge of madness by poverty and revelations about her father's affair with a black woman. |
| 1928 | Jingling in the Wind. Roberts's reliance on folk customs and regional details is evident in this charming novel about a rainmaker. |
| 1930 | The Great Meadow. Roberts's historical novel of pioneer life in the author's native Kentucky wins praise for both its epic grandeur and its poetic style. |
| 1932 | The Haunted Mirror. This collection of short stories details the way of life among Kentucky hill people. |
| 1935 | He Sent Forth a Raven. Roberts tells the story of a wealthy Kentucky farmer who, after the death of his wife, vows never to set foot on the earth again, managing his farm from his balcony. |
| 1938 | Black Is My Truelove's Hair. The Kentucky regionalist's final novel is a ballad-like story of the betrayal of a simple village girl by a truck driver. |
| 1941 | Not by Strange Gods. Roberts's last book is a collection of stories set in the Kentucky backwoods. |
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