500 Great Books By Women discussion

Daughter of the Hills: A Woman's Part in the Coal Miner's Struggle, Myra Page, 1950, United States, NOVEL

"...The novel takes us through Dolly's husband's death; the preface and afterword describes Dolly's development into a speaker and community organizer, and her studies at Commonwealth College in Arkansas, an experimental college founded in the 1930s upon the themes of labor history, organizing strategy, and Marxist theory...Written in the tradition of social activism and the political literature of the 1930s, with ardent attention to the dialect, customs, music, folklore, and scenery of the Tennessee coal-mining world, Daughter of the Hills is both a powerful love story and a novel of social protest for the people and communities who live as victims of corporate power and greed."

(K.B.-B., p. 232)