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Born 134 years ago on October 19, 1879, Emma Bell Miles was one of Southern Appalachia\u2019s earliest naturalists.\u00a0 Also an artist, poet, and writer, Emma Bell Miles lived on Walden\u2019s Ridge, near today\u2019s town of Signal Mountain, for most of her adult life.\u00a0 Although her husband, Frank Miles, was a hard worker, he had trouble finding paying work on Walden\u2019s Ridge, so the task of earning money fell on Emma who sold artwork, short stories, and poems to raise the money for food, clothing, and health care for her family. \u00a0She was educated, and formally trained as an artist.\u00a0 She was also a talented writer.<\/p>\n

\"Portrait<\/a>
Portrait of Emma Bell Miles as a young woman. Photo courtesy of Special Collections & University Archives, UTC Library, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1905 she published her book-length work,\u00a0The Spirit of the Mountains<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, which detailed the customs and lives of mountain folk in the Southern Appalachian region.\u00a0 She was a prolific poet and artist, and sold her artwork, both small and large pieces, as fast as she could produce them.<\/p>\n

\"Watercolor<\/a>
Watercolor painted by Emma Bell Miles of farm house on Walden’s Ridge. Painting courtesy of Special Collections & University Archives, UTC Library, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She published nearly twenty short stories and numerous poems in national magazines and newspapers between 1904-1919.\u00a0 She worked briefly as a columnist with the\u00a0Chattanooga News<\/em>\u00a0in 1914, providing nature essays in a column she titled \u201cFountain Square Conversations.\u201d\u00a0 She also self-published that year a pamphlet of her poems, titled \u201cChords from a Dulcimore<\/a><\/strong>.\u201d Each cover had an original illustration by Miles and in select copies she provided original illustrations.<\/p>\n

\"Frontispiece<\/a>
Frontispiece to Our Southern Birds. Watercolor courtesy of Special Collections & University Archives, UTC Library, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1915 she contracted tuberculosis and spent several years in and out of the Pine Breeze Sanitarium in North Chattanooga.\u00a0She died in 1919 from the disease, not yet forty years old.\u00a0 Shortly before she died, she published her last work, a nature book titled\u00a0Our Southern Birds<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, in which she drew illustrations of the birds.<\/p>\n

Sources<\/h3>\n

The Life and Works of Emma Bell Miles<\/a><\/strong>. Special Collections & University Archives, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.<\/p>\n

Jean Miles Catino papers<\/a><\/strong>. Special Collections & University Archives, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.<\/p>\n

Kay Baker Gaston papers<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0Special Collections & University Archives, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Born 134 years ago on October 19, 1879, Emma Bell Miles was one of Southern Appalachia\u2019s earliest naturalists.\u00a0 Also an artist, poet, and writer, Emma Bell Miles lived on Walden\u2019s Ridge, near today\u2019s town of Signal Mountain, for most of her adult life.\u00a0 Although her husband, Frank Miles, was a hard worker, he had trouble… <\/p>\n

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