Virginia Cary Hudson by Beverly Mayne Kienzle

Virginia Cary Hudson by Beverly Mayne Kienzle

An engaging and enchanting journey into a world of letters that will inspire and edify all those who love writing.

--Jerome Groopman, MD,

Recanati Professor, Harvard Medical School, coauthor with Dr. Pamela Hartzband, Your Medical Mind: How to Decide What is Right for You.

Beverly Mayne Kienzle grew up surrounded by papers and manuscripts containing the remarkable writings of her grandmother Virginia Cary Hudson Cleveland, still unpublished at her death in 1954. Beverly's mother, Virginia Cleveland Mayne, devoted herself to publishing those works.

That manuscript, O Ye Jigs and Juleps , sold for $2.50 and made its first--of sixty-six--appearances on the New York Times Best Sellers list on May 27, 1962, and three other books followed. Kienzle now returns to her roots and tells the story her mother started but never finished, the biography of Virginia Cary Hudson, a girl who grew up preaching.

In this authoritative biography, Virginia Cary Hudson, Kienzle recounts the career and family life of Virginia Cary Hudson. With warmth and humor, she reveals her grandmother's incisive observations of humankind, from simple folk to big-time gamblers, in places from Kentucky to Havana and Las Vegas. The letters and the scrapbook Beverly's grandmother completed for her, with its charming poems and drawings, appear in print for the first time, as does the narrative that Beverly's mother began in order to tell the poignant story of publishing a best seller.

Beverly Mayne Kienzle, John H. Morison Professor of the Practice in Latin and Romance Languages, Harvard Divinity School, has published widely on medieval sermons and preaching, and has edited (with Carolyn Muessig) and translated Hildegard's Expositiones euangeliorum.

Debra L. Stoudt is Professor of German and Associate Dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech. She has published on the medieval German mystics and magic and medicine in the Middle Ages.

George Ferzoco, Research Fellow at University of Bristol's Department of Religion and Theology, works on late medieval verbal and visual propaganda. He recently co-edited A Companion to Catherine of Siena with Beverly Mayne Kienzle and Carolyn Muessig (Brill, 2012).

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ISBN 13	9781491787816
ISBN 10	1491787813
Title	Virginia Cary Hudson
Author	Beverly Mayne Kienzle
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	iUniverse Star
Year published	2016-06-06
Number of pages	288
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.