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Language
English
Abstract
Notebooks of Lillian Mayfield Wright, Appalachian writer and poet from Tyler Co., WV. One of the notebooks is a typed manuscript
of No Wind Blowing/The Old Stone House. And the other two are a scrapbook of clippings of her published poems and a loose-leaf
notebook of typed poems and short stories. Daughter of J. Grant and Florence Carter Mayfield, she was a noted West Virginia
writer of the inter-war era who also published under the surname of her first husband as Lillian Mayfield Roberts. She studied
at New York University under the famous poet, Joyce Kilmer who later died as an American soldier in World War I.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Lillian Mayfield Wright, Poet, Notebooks, A&M 3214, West Virginia and
Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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