Ruth (nee) McEnery Stuart (1849 or 1856-1917) was an American author. Her works include: A Golden Wedding and Other Tales (1893), Carlotta's Intended (1894), Sonny: A Christmas Guest (1896), Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales (1896), In Simpkinsville: Character Tales (1897), Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches (1898), The Woman's Exchange of Simpkinsville (1899), Holly and Pizen and Other Stories (1899), Napoleon Jackson (1902), George Washington Jones (1903), The River's Children (1904), The Second Wooing of Alina Sue (1905), Aunt Amity's Silver Wedding (1909), Sonny's Father (1910), The Haunted Photograph (1911), Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles (1913) and The Cocoon (1915).
Ruth (nee) McEnery Stuart (1849 or 1856-1917) was an American author. She wrote a body of fiction and poetry based on the experiences she had in Arkansas, modeling characters, dialect, and even a fictional town on her interactions within the state. She was, both financially and critically, one of the most successful fiction writers of her time, and in recent years has been studied by feminist and social literary critics. Her works include: A Golden Wedding and Other Tales (1893), Carlotta's Intended (1894), Sonny: A Christmas Guest (1896), Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales (1896), In Simpkinsville: Character Tales (1897), Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches (1898), The Woman's Exchange of Simpkinsville (1899), Holly and Pizen and Other Stories (1899), Napoleon Jackson (1902), George Washington Jones (1903), The River's Children (1904), The Second Wooing of Alina Sue (1905), Aunt Amity's Silver Wedding (1909), Sonny's Father (1910), The Haunted Photograph (1911), Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles (1913) and The Cocoon (1915).
Ruth (nee) McEnery Stuart (1849 or 1856-1917) was an American author. Her works include: A Golden Wedding and Other Tales (1893), Carlotta's Intended (1894), Sonny: A Christmas Guest (1896), Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales (1896), In Simpkinsville: Character Tales (1897), Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches (1898), The Woman's Exchange of Simpkinsville (1899), Holly and Pizen and Other Stories (1899), Napoleon Jackson (1902), George Washington Jones (1903), The River's Children (1904), The Second Wooing of Alina Sue (1905), Aunt Amity's Silver Wedding (1909), Sonny's Father (1910), The Haunted Photograph (1911), Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles (1913) and The Cocoon (1915).
During the twenty-nine years after Ruth McEnery Stuart's first published story appeared in the New Princeton magazine in 1888 until her death in 1917, readers read her stories about life in Simkinsville, an imaginary village in southwest Arkansas.
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