{"id":2278,"date":"2014-09-24T12:54:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T19:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2014-09-24T13:21:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T20:21:48","slug":"young-martha-strudwick-1862-1941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2278","title":{"rendered":"YOUNG, MARTHA STRUDWICK, 1862-1941"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Author; folklorist; lecturer. Born&#8211; January 11, \u00a01862 in Newbern, Greene County, Ala. Parents&#8211; Elisha and Anne Elizabeth Ashe (Tutwiler) Young. Education&#8211; Female Academy, Greensboro; Tutwiler&#8217;s Green Springs School, Havana; Tuscaloosa Female Academy; Livingston Female Academy, 1880. After the War, the family moved to Greensboro and she returned there after graduation. Published stories and poems in periodicals; wrote sentimental and religious verse. Wrote often\u00a0in African-American dialect, popular at the time.\u00a0 Toured the nation reading her stories and lecturing. Elected to the Alabama Women&#8217;s Hall of Fame, 1986. \u00a0Died May 9, 1941.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Martha Young; Alabama&#8217;s Foremost Folklorist by William Stanley Hoole.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Behind the Dark Pines. New York; D. Appleton &amp; Co., 1912.<\/p>\n<p>Bessie Bell. New York; Scott Thaw Co., 1903.<\/p>\n<p>Minute Dramas; the Kodak at the Quarter. Montgomery, Ala.; Paragon Press, 1921.<\/p>\n<p>Plantation Bird Legends. New York; R. H. Russell Co., 1902.<\/p>\n<p>Plantation Songs for My Lady&#8217;s Banjo and Other Negro Lyrics and Monologues. New York; R. H. Russell Co., 1901.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody&#8217;s Little Girl. New York; Hinds, Noble &amp; Eldredge, 1910.<\/p>\n<p>Two Little Southern Sisters and Their Garden Plays. New York; Hinds, Hayden &amp; Eldridge, 1919.<\/p>\n<p>When We Were Wee. New York; Macmillan, 1913.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The papers of Martha Strudwixk Young are held by the Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Author; folklorist; lecturer. Born&#8211; January 11, \u00a01862 in Newbern, Greene County, Ala. Parents&#8211; Elisha and Anne Elizabeth Ashe (Tutwiler) Young. Education&#8211; Female Academy, Greensboro; Tutwiler&#8217;s Green Springs School, Havana; Tuscaloosa Female Academy; Livingston Female Academy, 1880. After the War, the family moved to Greensboro and she returned there after graduation. Published stories and poems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-w-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3832,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/3832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}