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Edith Summers Kelley


Born
in Canada
April 28, 1884

Died
June 09, 1956


Edith Summers Kelley (April 28, 1884 – June 9, 1956) was a Canadian-born author who lived and worked in the United States, and is best known for her 1923 novel Weeds (1923), set in the hills of Kentucky.

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Average rating: 3.94 · 199 ratings · 25 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors
Weeds
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3.97 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 1923 — 19 editions
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“The main trouble with Bill was that along with nine-tenths of the rest of humanity, he had missed his calling.”
― Edith Summers Kelley, Weeds
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“...from the big tobacco barns there welled forth a fragrance that was for these Kentuckians, the soul of autumn. Oozing out into the sunshine from every crack in the great structures, it exhilarated like an elixir, like a long draught of some rich, spicy wine.”
― Edith Summers Kelley, Weeds
tags: tobacco, tobacco-farming
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“Hain't life woth livin', Uncle Jabez?" she asked. He laughed a short, harsh laugh and fell silent.

"Waal, I dunno, Judy," he said at last, meditatively shifting his quid of tobacco. "I reckon it makes a big diff'rence who you live it with an' a bigger diff'rence yet what work yuh lay yer hand to. Both o' them things, as I see it, is a matter of luck.”
― Edith Summers Kelley, Weeds
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