| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author and Suffragist. By Lynn E. Niedermeier. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007. x, 284 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8131-2470-4.)

Lynn E. Niedermeier pieces together the life of Eliza Calvert Obenchain (1856–1935), a writer under the pen name Eliza Calvert Hall and a suffragist. "Lida" Calvert launched herself with a pair of effusive poems in Scribner's Monthly in 1879. Her journalism appeared in the New York Times, Woman's Journal, and Kate Field's Washington, on topics from metaphysics to womanhood and the domestic arts. Wider popularity followed a local-color collection titled Aunt Jane of Kentucky (1907). Expert in homespun philosophy and quilting, Aunt Jane tells stories both artful and charming. They are still available in print. Lida had no full biography until now.

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