Anne W. Armstrong

[6] In the late 1920s, Armstrong retired and moved to the Big Creek community in rural Sullivan County, Tennessee, which would provide the inspiration for her 1930 novel, This Day and Time.[2] Armstrong's first novel, The Seas of God, tells the story of a young woman, Lydia Lambright, and her struggles to survive as an unwed mother amidst the moral constraints of Victorian society.The story opens in Kingsville, a fictional Southern town (based on Knoxville)[1] where Lydia's dying father, a professor, has been ostracized for teaching the Theory of Evolution.[8] Armstrong's second novel, This Day and Time, takes place in an early 20th-century rural Appalachian community based primarily on the Big Creek area of Sullivan County, Tennessee.[2] The story focuses on Ivy, a mountain woman who returns to a life of subsistence farming after spending several distasteful years as a wage-earner in a nearby city.
Grand Rapids, MichiganAbingdon, VirginiaMount Holyoke CollegeUniversity of ChicagoAdelia Armstrong LutzAmericanAppalachianHarvard School of BusinessDartmouthTuck School of BusinessKnoxville, TennesseeEastman KodakSullivan County, TennesseeThomas WolfeThe Yale ReviewTennessee Valley AuthoritySouth Holston DamSoutheastTheory of Evolutionsubsistence farmingAppalachian dialectNellie RossEast Tennessee State University