Eliza Calvert Hall, 1856-1935 - Bowling Green, KY
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N 36° 59.185 W 086° 26.855
16S E 549160 N 4093508
Located on Chestnut Street at East 14th Avenue, Bowling Green
Waymark Code: WM180BH
Location: Kentucky, United States
Date Posted: 05/02/2023
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Lida Calvert Obenchain (“Eliza Calvert Hall”), suffragist, press superintendent of Ky. Equal Rights Assn., poet, author. Her most famous story, “Sally Ann’s Experience” (1898), protested women’s inequality. President Roosevelt praised her first collection of stories, Aunt Jane of Kentucky (1907). Over
Presented by Literary Clubs of Bowling Green
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Royalties helped purchase home at 1353 Chestnut St. The Land of Long Ago (1909), To Love and to Cherish (1911) and Clover and Blue Grass (1916) followed. For A Book of Hand-Woven Coverlets (1912), she bought coverlets from wagons of tobacco farmers on Chestnut St. Her books reached at least one million readers.
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Presented by Literary Clubs of Bowling Green
Marker Name: Eliza Calvert Hall 1856-1935
Marker Location: City
Type of Marker: Person
Marker Number (for official markers): 2240
Group(s) Responsible for placing Marker: Kentucky Historical Society
Kentucky Department of Highways
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