Latimer legend: typescripts and notes, 1961
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Latimer legend: typescripts and notes, 1961
- Creator
- Hebson, Ann, 1925-
- Extent
- .5 cubic ft.
- Subjects
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.
- Manuscripts (for publication)
- Kentucky author
- Arrangement
- Organized: Notes on John Brown raid; Marietta and Virginia settlers; Stonewall Jackson; The Latimer Legend typescripts. The typescripts are paginated and the other materials have no discernible arrangement.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Author. Ann Hebson, who lived in Louisville and later New York, published her first novel, A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE, in 1958 and her second one, THE LATIMER LEGEND in 1961. The second is set in Kentucky and West Virginia alternating between the present day and Civil War eras.
- Scope and Content
- The collection contains typescripts of THE LATIMER LEGEND and undated notes which went into the writing of the historical novel.
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