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Excerpt from Southern Writers: Biographical and Critical Studies; Charles Egbert Craddock

Murfreesboro, was in its day the most magnificent in that region. In this home was born, about 1850, a little girl to Whom her parents gave the name Mary N oailles, but whom most people will prefer to remember as Charles Egbert Craddock.

In childhood a paralysis, which caused lameness for life, deprived her of all participation in the sports of children and set her bright and active mind to work to devise its own amusement and entertainment. Early sickness has more than once proved a blessing in disguise to the future writer of fiction by teaching him to train the observation, to live in good books, and to company with his fancies. It sent Scott to the country and to the fountains of leg end and story, strongly inclined Dickens to reading, and laid Haw thorne upon the carpet to study the long day through. In the same way the Tennessee girl early developed a marked fondness for works of ficchatles Egbert Graooock.

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