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Roots
Roseanna McCoy, from The McCoys
Royall, Anne Newport
Rumors
Rylant, Cynthia
Salvation
Sara Will, from Chapter 11
Saved
Saving Grace, Chapter 1
Second Christmas
Seedtime on the Cumberland
Sellers, Bettie
Settle, Mary Lee
Seventh Grades
Shadow of the Mountain, from Part III
She
Shelby, Anne
Sheppard, Muriel Earley
Sholl, Betsy
Showell, Ellen Harvey
Sight to the Blind
Sinclair, Bennie Lee
Sing for Freedom
Singing Family of the Cumberlands, Chapter One
Sister
Sketches of History, Life, and Manners, in the United States, Kenhawa County
Slone, Verna Mae
Smith, Barbara
Smith, Effie Waller
Smith, Lee
Snake Dreams
Solidarity in the Night
Someday in a Wood
Some Days There's Pie, On My Way to the Rest of My Life
Songcatcher, The, from Chapter 5
Sonnet for Her Labor
Southern Family, A
Spellcheck
Spending the Night
Spirit of the Mountains, The, Cabin Homes
Spirit of the Mountains, The, Grandmothers and Sons
Sports Widow
Stair, The
Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet,
Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet,
Storming Heaven, Carrie Bishop
Story is a Woman
Strike in Virginia, A, from The Autobiography of Mother Jones
Stuart, Jane
Sunday Morning, 1950
This Day and Time, Chapter Three
This is what history is
Tick
Time of Man, The, from Chapter III
Time to Reweave, A
Time to Study Law, A
To her mother, lying in state
To Make My Bread, from Chapter 1
To My Daughter Going Off to College
Transparencies, Cycles
Trigiani, Adriana
Twilight in West Virginia: Six O'Clock Mine Report
Twins
Under the Earth
Unquiet Earth, The, The Ice Breaks, 1930s
Up the Hill toward Home
Vampire Ethnographer, The
Visiting My Gravesite: Talbott Churchyard, West Virginia
War at Home, The, from Chapter 1
Way Back, The
Weather Rhymes
Weeds, Chapter III
Welcome to the Other Side
What My Heart Wants to Tell, Chapter Twenty
When Earth Becomes an “It”
When Grandmother Wept
When You Lose a Child
Where I'm From
Where Stuarts Lie
Why I Write
Widow Man, The
Wilder, Chapter 6
Wildsmith, Dana
Wildwood Flower
Wilkinson, Sylvia
Willis, Meredith Sue
Wilson, Leigh Allison
With A Hammer for My Heart, from Part One
Witherspoon, Mary Elizabeth
woman is segmented as an ant, A
Woman Writer
Women Die Like Trees
Writing Lessons (I.)
Writing Lessons (II.)
zora neale
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LLEWELLYN MCKERNAN
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IRENE MCKINNEY
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