Informazioni generali

Data di nascita: 1886-10-30
Data di morte: 1941-03-13
Luogo di sepoltura: Springfield, Kentucky, USA
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: Perryville, Kentucky, USA
Luogo di morte: Orlando, Florida, USA
Luogo di residenza: Perryville, Kentucky, USA (birth)
Orlando, Florida, USA (death)
Springfield, Kentucky, USA
Covington, Kentucky, USA
Istruzione: University of Chicago
Attività lavorative: novelist
short story writer
poet
Organizzazioni: American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1941)
Breve biografia: Elizabeth Madox Roberts was born in Perryville, Kentucky, near Springfield, at the southern edge of the Bluegrass -- what she called her Little Country. Her father was a Confederate soldier who became an engineer. Elizabeth attended local schools in Springfield and went to high school in Covington, where she lived with her maternal grandparents. Her health was poor and she was unable to attend college, except for a brief spell at the University of Kentucky, until age 36, when she enrolled at the University of Chicago. There she befriended a group of writers and artists who helped her launch a late-blooming but productive writing career. She was the author of seven novels, three volumes of poems, and two collections of short stories, many of them featuring the Kentucky people she grew up with. Her first published work was Under the Tree, a collection of poems for children (1922). Her best-known novels are The Time of Man (1926) and The Great Meadow (1930).

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The Time of Man di Elizabeth Madox Roberts

I loved this book. It reminded me si much of my maternal grandma and grandpa, who were tenant farmers in Missouri in the early twentieth century. The writing evokes the sights, smells and feeling of being in the country, poignantly recalling to my mind weekends spent on the farm. Even the poverty is the same. A beautifully written book.

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burritapal | 1 altra recensione | Oct 23, 2022 |

Under the Tree di Elizabeth Madox Roberts

This book was interesting for a number of reasons. All of the poems were simple, and would be good to use in the classroom to teach children about different types of poetry. The language of each poem was simple, however there was some variation between the poems, and some would be better used for older children. The poems vary in length and complexity. The poems were engaging, and would be fun for children to read. Everything was well organized, and I enjoyed the poems in this book.

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rwertl1 | Nov 5, 2018 |

The Time of Man A Novel di Elizabeth Madox Roberts

2929 The Time of Man A Novel by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (read 17 Nov 1996) This is the author's first novel, published to "almost universal acclaim" in 1926. It is a story laid in Kentucky, dealing entirely with poor farmers. It uses the idiom of central Kentucky, which I had no trouble following, and tells of Ellen Chesser from age 13 to mid-age: poor, hard-working, stark--with a certain poetry in her awful existence. I feel it was well worth reading.

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Schmerguls | 1 altra recensione | Jan 23, 2008 |

The Great Meadow by Elizabeth Madox Roberts di Elizabeth Madox Roberts

4297 The Great Meadow, by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (read 8 Apr 2007) I read this once famous but now forgotten novelist's best known work, The Time of Man, back on Nov. 17, 1996, with much appreciation. This is her other well known book, but is far different. It tells of pioneers in Kentucky from 1774 to 1781. They had a hard life, and Indians bothered them much. At the end the heroine ends up with two husbands, having thought the first one was killed by the Indians--and must choose which one she will keep. So the book turned out to be of interest, even though for a long time it did not seem like much.… (altro)

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Schmerguls | Oct 29, 2007 |

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