The Common Lot and Other Stories. Emma Bell Miles

Ibid., 953.

      25. Emma Bell Miles, “Three Roads and a River,” Harper’s Monthly Magazine 121 (November 1910): 889.

      26. Emma Bell Miles, Journal, I, July 1909. Cox, 39.

      27. Emma Bell Miles, “Flower of Noon,” The Craftsman 21 (January 1912): 394.

      Emma Bell, age twenty-one, shortly before her marriage (photograph in editor’s collection; also in Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Frank Miles, age twenty-three, about the time of his marriage (Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Emma Bell Miles with husband Frank and twin daughters, Judith and Jean, in front of their tent home, summer 1903 (photograph in editor’s collection; also in Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Emma with children, Judith, Kitty, Joe, and Jean, outside the home Frank built, summer 1908 (photograph in editor’s collection; also in Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Emma, the twins, and friends from Chattanooga who had come to visit on Walden’s Ridge, about 1910 (Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Emma and her youngest children, Mirick (Mark) and Kitty, summer 1911 (Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Emma and the twins, Judith and Jean, summer 1913 (photograph in editor’s collection; also in Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Emma, probably 1914, age thirty-five—newspaper advertisement for a lecture author was giving (photograph in editor’s collection; also in Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Pen-and-ink sketch of the bluff on Walden’s Ridge by Emma Bell Miles (Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Pen-and-ink postcard sketch of a cabin on Walden’s Ridge by Emma Bell Miles (Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Watercolor of a cabin and attached fence on Walden’s Ridge by Emma Bell Miles (Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Pen-and-ink postcard sketch of an open fireplace with cooking pot on Walden’s Ridge by Emma Bell Miles (Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Watercolor of a girl cooking over an open fireplace by Emma Bell Miles. Daughter Judith posed for this painting, which was used in the individually illustrated copies of Chords from a Dulcimore. (Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Pen-and-ink postcard sketch of a cabin under the hillside by Emma Bell Miles (Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Watercolor of a fern and a pink lady’s slipper by Emma Bell Miles (Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Handmade greeting card in watercolor by Emma Bell Miles (Jean Miles Catino Collection, Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Illustration by Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock for Emma Bell Miles’s first published short story, “The Common Lot,” in Harper’s Monthly Magazine, December 1908: “On the Mossy Roots of a Great Beech She Awaited His Return”—Easter sitting by the tree waiting for Alison (Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Illustration by W. Herbert Dunton for “The Dulcimore,” published in Harper’s Monthly Magazine, November 1909: “He Fired the Mass, Pulling Regularly on the Bellows”—Georgia and Return in the blacksmith shop (Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Illustration by W. Herbert Dunton for “Flyaway Flittermouse,” published in Harper’s Monthly Magazine, July 1910: “D’You Reckon She’s Lost, Jeff?”—Flittermouse with two of the adults she meets in her travels (Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

      Illustration by Howard E. Smith for “Three Roads and a River,” published in Harper’s Monthly Magazine, November 1910: “Secretly Adding the Contents of the Bottle”—Old Zion acting on what he thinks is his sign from God (Special Collections, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

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      From Harper’s Monthly Magazine 118 (December 1908): 145–54; illustrated by Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock

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