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Corra Mae Harris

January 01, 1970

Corra Mae Harris (March 17, 1869 – February 7, 1935), was an American writer and journalist. She was one of the first women war correspondents to go abroad in World War I.

Corra Mae Harris
BornCorra Mae White
(1869-03-17)17 March 1869
Elbert County, Georgia
Died7 February 1935(1935-02-07) (aged 65)
Atlanta, Georgia
OccupationNovelist, journalist
NationalityAmerican
SpouseLundy Howard Harris

Biography edit

Corra Mae White was born in Elbert County, Georgia, March 17, 1869. Her formal education was limited to teacher training at nearby female academies, though she never graduated from any of the schools she attended.

In 1887 she married Methodist minister and educator Lundy Howard Harris (1858–1910). They had one child survive to adulthood, a daughter named Faith (1887–1919). For roughly two decades Harris struggled through various personal tragedies, including a troubled marriage; the death of two infant sons; scandal and humiliation surrounding the abandonment, betrayal, and return of her husband in 1898 and his public confessions of adultery; the financial destitution resulting from the loss of his teaching position at Emory College; his suicide in 1910; her daughter's death in 1919; and her sister's death shortly after that. Harris remained a widow until her death 25 years later.

Harris was, for a time, the most widely known woman from the state of Georgia. Her literary reputation during her life and legacy since are connected with A Circuit Rider's Wife published in 1910. Reputedly autobiographical, the novel is at most a spiritual autobiography, with little else that resembles her actual life. She wrote more than two dozen books, nineteen of which were published. Two were autobiographies, one a travel journal, and two became feature-length movies, the best known was I'd Climb the Highest Mountain, released in 1951 and inspired by, A Circuit Rider's Wife.[1] The other was the 1920 film Husbands and Wives.[2] She published over 200 articles and short stories, and well over a thousand book reviews. She was one of the first women war correspondents to go abroad in World War I.[3] She lived the last two decades of her life at the place she named In the Valley in Bartow County, Georgia. She wrote lovingly of "The Valley" where she lived as early as 1914.[4]

 
Mrs. Corra Harris, c. 1910s.

Although she became famous for her fiction, Harris's reputation for reactionary conservatism lasted throughout her life and became part of her contradictory legacy.[5][6] Such a reputation resulted in part from her first nationally published piece in 1899. After the lynching of Thomas Wilkes, alias Sam Hose, near Newnan, Georgia, William Hayes Ward, editor-in-chief at the Independent, published an editorial denouncing the act. Harris wrote and the Independent published "A Southern Woman's View", a reply upholding the southern practice of lynching with reasoning anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (Ida B. Wells) called "threadbare", namely to protect innocent white women from malevolent black men. Editors at the Independent asked Harris for more, which launched her writing career. Afterward, she wrote several non-fiction essays on southern identity that furthered conventional images of southerners during the first decade of the century. They also tied her reputation then and after to regional apologia (apologists), an image that belies the complexity of her body of work.

After A Circuit Rider's Wife was published in 1910, Harris wrote and published prolifically, both fiction and non-fiction, throughout the nineteen-teens. During the 1920s, her most successful works were two autobiographies published in the middle of the decade. By the early 1930s Harris's publishing was limited largely to local areas. The last four years of her life, from 1931 to 1935, she published what critics have called some of her best writing in a tri-weekly "Candlelit Column" in the Atlanta Journal.[7] Some critics have dismissed Harris's fiction as domestic or sentimental, but others find nuanced social and cultural critique in her works, especially of the South's gender and racial mores.

Harris died in Atlanta, February 7, 1935.[8]

Works edit

  • (1904). The Jessica Letters, in collaboration with Paul Elmer More.
  • (1910). A Circuit Rider's Wife.
  • (1910). Eve's Second Husband.
  • (1912). The Recording Angel.
  • (1913). In Search of a Husband.
  • (1915). The Co-Citizens.
  • (1915). Justice.
  • (1916). A Circuit Rider's Widow.
  • (1918). Making Her His Wife.
  • (1919). From Sunup to Sundown.
  • (1919). In Search of a Husband.
  • (1920). Happily Married.
  • (1921). My Son.
  • (1922). The Eyes of Love.
  • (1923). A Daughter of Adam.
  • (1923). The House of Helen.
  • (1924). My Book and My Heart.
  • (1925). As a Woman Thinks.
  • (1926). Flapper Anne.
  • (1927). The Happy Pilgrimage.

Selected articles edit

  • (1914). "New York as Seen from a Georgia Valley: In the Valley," The Independent 77, pp. 97–99.
  • (1914). "The Abomination of Cities," The Independent 77, pp. 129–131.
  • (1914). "Men and Women: And the 'Woman Question'," The Independent 77, pp. 164–165.
  • (1914). "Marriage: New Profession or Old Miracle?," The Independent 77, pp. 234–235.
  • (1914). "The Streets of the City," The Independent 77, pp. 306–308.
  • (1914). "How New York Amuses Itself," The Independent 77, pp. 374–376.
  • (1914). "The Literary Spectrum of New York," The Independent 77, pp. 441–443.
  • (1914). "If You Must Come to New York," The Independent 78, pp. 29–32.
  • (1914). "The Valley: After New York," The Independent 79, pp. 63–65.
  • (1915). "From the Peace Zone in the Valley," The Independent 81, pp. 190–192.
  • (1915). "War and Bride in June," The Independent 81, p. 506.
  • (1916). "Why We Should Read Books," The Independent 85, pp. 117–118.
  • (1916). "What Men Know About Women," The Independent 85, p. 379.
  • (1916). "June Brides," The Independent 85, p. 377.
  • (1916). "The Woman of Yesterday," The Independent 85, pp. 484.
  • (1916). "In the Valley," The Independent 87, pp. 123–124.
  • (1916). "Politics and Prayers in the Valley," The Independent 87, pp. 135–136.
  • (1917). "War Time in the Valley," The Independent 91, p. 471.
  • (1919). "Was Eve a Feminist?," The Independent 97, p. 338.

Short stories edit

  • (1912). "Jeff," The Independent 73, pp. 714–724.
  • (1913). "On the Instalment Plan," Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. CXXVII, pp. 342–353.
  • (1915). "The Other People," Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. CXXVII, pp. 54–57.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Corra Harris," IMDb.
  2. ^ "Husbands and Wives". IMDb. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  3. ^ Talmadge, John E. (1964). "Corra Harris Goes to War," The Georgia Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 150-156.
  4. ^ Harris, Corra (1914). "The Valley, After New York", The Independent, Vol. 79, No. 3423, pp. 63–65.
  5. ^ Badura, Catherine O. (2000). "Reluctant Suffragist/Unwitting Feminist: The Ambivalent Political Voice of Corra Harris," Southeastern Political Review: Women in Southern United States Politics 28, pp. 397-426.
  6. ^ Badura, Catherine O. (2003). "The 'Seemingly Contradictory' Life and Legacy of Georgia Novelist Corra Harris," The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 87, No. 2, pp. 200-244.
  7. ^ Badura, Catherine O. (2003). "The "Seemingly Contradictory" Life and Legacy of Georgia Novelist Corra Harris". Georgia Historical Quarterly. 87 (2): 200–244. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  8. ^ "Mrs. Corra Harris, Writer, Dead at 65," The New York Times, February 10, 1935.
  • Oglesby, Catherine (2007). "Corra Harris," in Ruppersburg, Hugh & Inscoe, John C. (Eds), The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion To Georgia Literature. Athens: University of Georgia Press, pp. 201–203. Online version: Catherine Oglesby (July 8, 2002). "Corra Harris (1869-1935)". New Georgia Encyclopedia..
  • Oglesby, Catherine (2008). Corra Harris and the Divided Mind of the New South. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
  • Talmadge, John E. (1968). Corra Harris: Lady of Purpose. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

Further reading edit

  • Blackstock, Walter (1955). "Corra Harris: An Analytical Study of Her Novels," Florida State University Studies 19, pp. 39–92.
  • Coffing, Karen (1995). "Corra Harris and the Saturday Evening Post: Southern Domesticity Conveyed to a National Audience, 1900-1930," Georgia Historical Quarterly 79, pp. 367–93.
  • Edwards, C. H. (1963). "The Early Literary Criticism of Corra Harris," The Georgia Review, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 449–455.
  • Mathews, Donald (2009). "Corra Harris: The Storyteller as Folk Preacher," in Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times, Vol. 1, ed. Ann Short Chirhart and Betty Wood. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
  • Mixon, Wayne (1988). in Developing Dixie: Modernization in a Traditional Society, ed. Winfred B. Moore Jr., et al. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
  • Overton, Grant M. (1922). "Corra Harris," in The Women who Make our Novels. New York: Moffat, Yard & Company.
  • Reeves, Ruby (1937). Corra Harris: Her Life and Works (master's thesis, University of Georgia).
  • Simms, Jr., L. Moody (1979). “Corra Harris on the Decline of Southern Writing,” Southern Studies 18, pp. 247–50
  • Tate, William (1951). "A Neighbor's Recollections of Corra Harris," The Georgia Review, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 22–33.
  • Williams, E. Virginia (1930). Religion and the Church as Motifs in American Fiction (master's thesis, Vanderbilt University).

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Corra May Harris.
  • Works by Corra Harris at Project Gutenberg
  • Works by or about Corra Mae Harris at Internet Archive
  • Corra Harris (1869-1935)
  • Corra May Harris (1869-1935): "Professor of Evil"
  • Harris, Corra Mae White
  • Censoring Art and History
  • Corra Harris historical marker
  • In the Valley Collection (Corra Harris Historic Homestead, Bartow County, Georgia), 1902–2004, from the Kennesaw State University Archives.
  • Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

January 01, 1970
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Corra Mae Harris March 17 1869 February 7 1935 was an American writer and journalist She was one of the first women war correspondents to go abroad in World War I Corra Mae HarrisBornCorra Mae White 1869 03 17 17 March 1869Elbert County GeorgiaDied7 February 1935 1935 02 07 aged 65 Atlanta GeorgiaOccupationNovelist journalistNationalityAmericanSpouseLundy Howard Harris Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 2 1 Selected articles 2 2 Short stories 3 See also 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External linksBiography editCorra Mae White was born in Elbert County Georgia March 17 1869 Her formal education was limited to teacher training at nearby female academies though she never graduated from any of the schools she attended In 1887 she married Methodist minister and educator Lundy Howard Harris 1858 1910 They had one child survive to adulthood a daughter named Faith 1887 1919 For roughly two decades Harris struggled through various personal tragedies including a troubled marriage the death of two infant sons scandal and humiliation surrounding the abandonment betrayal and return of her husband in 1898 and his public confessions of adultery the financial destitution resulting from the loss of his teaching position at Emory College his suicide in 1910 her daughter s death in 1919 and her sister s death shortly after that Harris remained a widow until her death 25 years later Harris was for a time the most widely known woman from the state of Georgia Her literary reputation during her life and legacy since are connected with A Circuit Rider s Wife published in 1910 Reputedly autobiographical the novel is at most a spiritual autobiography with little else that resembles her actual life She wrote more than two dozen books nineteen of which were published Two were autobiographies one a travel journal and two became feature length movies the best known was I d Climb the Highest Mountain released in 1951 and inspired by A Circuit Rider s Wife 1 The other was the 1920 film Husbands and Wives 2 She published over 200 articles and short stories and well over a thousand book reviews She was one of the first women war correspondents to go abroad in World War I 3 She lived the last two decades of her life at the place she named In the Valley in Bartow County Georgia She wrote lovingly of The Valley where she lived as early as 1914 4 nbsp Mrs Corra Harris c 1910s Although she became famous for her fiction Harris s reputation for reactionary conservatism lasted throughout her life and became part of her contradictory legacy 5 6 Such a reputation resulted in part from her first nationally published piece in 1899 After the lynching of Thomas Wilkes alias Sam Hose near Newnan Georgia William Hayes Ward editor in chief at the Independent published an editorial denouncing the act Harris wrote and the Independent published A Southern Woman s View a reply upholding the southern practice of lynching with reasoning anti lynching activist Ida B Wells Barnett Ida B Wells called threadbare namely to protect innocent white women from malevolent black men Editors at the Independent asked Harris for more which launched her writing career Afterward she wrote several non fiction essays on southern identity that furthered conventional images of southerners during the first decade of the century They also tied her reputation then and after to regional apologia apologists an image that belies the complexity of her body of work After A Circuit Rider s Wife was published in 1910 Harris wrote and published prolifically both fiction and non fiction throughout the nineteen teens During the 1920s her most successful works were two autobiographies published in the middle of the decade By the early 1930s Harris s publishing was limited largely to local areas The last four years of her life from 1931 to 1935 she published what critics have called some of her best writing in a tri weekly Candlelit Column in the Atlanta Journal 7 Some critics have dismissed Harris s fiction as domestic or sentimental but others find nuanced social and cultural critique in her works especially of the South s gender and racial mores Harris died in Atlanta February 7 1935 8 Works edit 1904 The Jessica Letters in collaboration with Paul Elmer More 1910 A Circuit Rider s Wife 1910 Eve s Second Husband 1912 The Recording Angel 1913 In Search of a Husband 1915 The Co Citizens 1915 Justice 1916 A Circuit Rider s Widow 1918 Making Her His Wife 1919 From Sunup to Sundown 1919 In Search of a Husband 1920 Happily Married 1921 My Son 1922 The Eyes of Love 1923 A Daughter of Adam 1923 The House of Helen 1924 My Book and My Heart 1925 As a Woman Thinks 1926 Flapper Anne 1927 The Happy Pilgrimage Selected articles edit 1914 New York as Seen from a Georgia Valley In the Valley The Independent 77 pp 97 99 1914 The Abomination of Cities The Independent 77 pp 129 131 1914 Men and Women And the Woman Question The Independent 77 pp 164 165 1914 Marriage New Profession or Old Miracle The Independent 77 pp 234 235 1914 The Streets of the City The Independent 77 pp 306 308 1914 How New York Amuses Itself The Independent 77 pp 374 376 1914 The Literary Spectrum of New York The Independent 77 pp 441 443 1914 If You Must Come to New York The Independent 78 pp 29 32 1914 The Valley After New York The Independent 79 pp 63 65 1915 From the Peace Zone in the Valley The Independent 81 pp 190 192 1915 War and Bride in June The Independent 81 p 506 1916 Why We Should Read Books The Independent 85 pp 117 118 1916 What Men Know About Women The Independent 85 p 379 1916 June Brides The Independent 85 p 377 1916 The Woman of Yesterday The Independent 85 pp 484 1916 In the Valley The Independent 87 pp 123 124 1916 Politics and Prayers in the Valley The Independent 87 pp 135 136 1917 War Time in the Valley The Independent 91 p 471 1919 Was Eve a Feminist The Independent 97 p 338 Short stories edit 1912 Jeff The Independent 73 pp 714 724 1913 On the Instalment Plan Harper s Monthly Magazine Vol CXXVII pp 342 353 1915 The Other People Harper s Monthly Magazine Vol CXXVII pp 54 57 See also editCorra White Harris House Study and Chapel her home In the Valley which is listed on the National Register of Historic PlacesReferences edit Corra Harris IMDb Husbands and Wives IMDb a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a Missing or empty url help Talmadge John E 1964 Corra Harris Goes to War The Georgia Review Vol 18 No 2 pp 150 156 Harris Corra 1914 The Valley After New York The Independent Vol 79 No 3423 pp 63 65 Badura Catherine O 2000 Reluctant Suffragist Unwitting Feminist The Ambivalent Political Voice of Corra Harris Southeastern Political Review Women in Southern United States Politics 28 pp 397 426 Badura Catherine O 2003 The Seemingly Contradictory Life and Legacy of Georgia Novelist Corra Harris The Georgia Historical Quarterly Vol 87 No 2 pp 200 244 Badura Catherine O 2003 The Seemingly Contradictory Life and Legacy of Georgia Novelist Corra Harris Georgia Historical Quarterly 87 2 200 244 Retrieved 19 February 2018 Mrs Corra Harris Writer Dead at 65 The New York Times February 10 1935 Oglesby Catherine 2007 Corra Harris in Ruppersburg Hugh amp Inscoe John C Eds The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion To Georgia Literature Athens University of Georgia Press pp 201 203 Online version Catherine Oglesby July 8 2002 Corra Harris 1869 1935 New Georgia Encyclopedia Oglesby Catherine 2008 Corra Harris and the Divided Mind of the New South Gainesville University Press of Florida Talmadge John E 1968 Corra Harris Lady of Purpose Athens University of Georgia Press Further reading editBlackstock Walter 1955 Corra Harris An Analytical Study of Her Novels Florida State University Studies 19 pp 39 92 Coffing Karen 1995 Corra Harris and the Saturday Evening Post Southern Domesticity Conveyed to a National Audience 1900 1930 Georgia Historical Quarterly 79 pp 367 93 Edwards C H 1963 The Early Literary Criticism of Corra Harris The Georgia Review Vol 17 No 4 pp 449 455 Mathews Donald 2009 Corra Harris The Storyteller as Folk Preacher in Georgia Women Their Lives and Times Vol 1 ed Ann Short Chirhart and Betty Wood Athens University of Georgia Press Mixon Wayne 1988 Traditionalist and Iconoclast Corra Harris and Southern Writing 1900 1920 in Developing Dixie Modernization in a Traditional Society ed Winfred B Moore Jr et al Westport Conn Greenwood Press Overton Grant M 1922 Corra Harris in The Women who Make our Novels New York Moffat Yard amp Company Reeves Ruby 1937 Corra Harris Her Life and Works master s thesis University of Georgia Simms Jr L Moody 1979 Corra Harris on the Decline of Southern Writing Southern Studies 18 pp 247 50 Tate William 1951 A Neighbor s Recollections of Corra Harris The Georgia Review Vol 5 No 1 pp 22 33 Williams E Virginia 1930 Religion and the Church as Motifs in American Fiction master s thesis Vanderbilt University External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Corra May Harris Works by Corra Harris at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Corra Mae Harris at Internet Archive Corra Harris 1869 1935 Corra May Harris 1869 1935 Professor of Evil Harris Corra Mae White Censoring Art and History Corra Harris historical marker In the Valley Collection Corra Harris Historic Homestead Bartow County Georgia 1902 2004 from the Kennesaw State University Archives Stuart A Rose Manuscript Archives and Rare Book Library Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Corra Mae Harris amp oldid 1173129125, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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