Quilt Stories

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More than thirty stories, plays, poems, and songs featuring the making of quilts--written from 1845 to the present, mainly by American women--document women's literary history. Featuring the work of Bobbie Ann Mason, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Marge Piercy, Adrienne Rich, and many others, Quilt Stories is a colorful literary album of stories, poems, and plays that celebrate quilting as a pattern in women's history. These stories -- grouped under the themes of memory, ...

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Overview

More than thirty stories, plays, poems, and songs featuring the making of quilts--written from 1845 to the present, mainly by American women--document women's literary history. Featuring the work of Bobbie Ann Mason, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Marge Piercy, Adrienne Rich, and many others, Quilt Stories is a colorful literary album of stories, poems, and plays that celebrate quilting as a pattern in women's history. These stories -- grouped under the themes of memory, courtship, struggle, mystery, and wisdom -- reflect the importance of quilting in the lives of American women, not only as a practical craft and a creative outlet, but also as an integral part of the social community.

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"One giant treat, covering as it does writers from many different times and genres fashioned into a grand design." -- Rockland (ME) Courier-Gazette

"Anyone who loves quilts will want to add Quilt Stories to their library. But, anyone who loves stories about reinforcing family ties and commemorating events will want to have it, too." -- Tennessee Star-Journal

"An important chronicle of women's literary achievements and history." -- United Methodist Reporter

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780813108216
  • Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
  • Publication date: 11/1/2009
  • Edition description: REPRINT
  • Pages: 304
  • Product dimensions: 0.67 (w) x 5.50 (h) x 8.50 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
I Memory Blocks: Stories of Remembrance and Meaning
The Patchwork Quilt 11
Excerpt from Natural Resources 16
Quilts 17
Looking at Quilts 20
Celestial Timepiece 22
My Grandmother's Quilt 24
II Double Wedding Ring: Stories of Community and Courtship
The Quilting Party 69
Excerpt from The Minister's Wooing 74
Miss Jones' Quilting 85
A Quilting Bee in Our Village 92
Aunt Jerusha's Quilting Party 99
Whitework, or Bride's Quilt 118
Excerpt from Double Wedding Ring 120
III Radical Rose: Stories of Struggle and Change
The Dream of Washing Quilts 145
Gospel Quilt 148
Excerpt from Black April 159
Everyday Use 174
Bible Quilt, circa 1900 183
Excerpt from How to Make an American Quilt 185
IV Wheel of Mystery: Stories of Murder and Mystery
Rose of Sharon 193
Trifles 194
Excerpt from The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter 207
Excerpt from The Body in the Kelp 209
Pieces to a Quilt 221
V Old Maid's Ramble: Stories of Age and Wisdom
An Honest Soul 233
Excerpt from Aunt Jane of Kentucky 243
The Bedquilt 257
Love Life 266
About the Authors 281
Sources and Permissions 286
Suggestions for Further Reading 288
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