Mary Noailles Murfree (_pseud._, Charles Egbert Craddock) has written of the mountain people of Tennessee, while John Fox, Jr.

has done the same for Kentucky and the Virginia and West Virginia mountains.

George W.Cable and Grace King have depicted Louisiana in the early part of this period, while rural life in Georgia has been well described in the stories of Joel Chandler Harris, better known from his Uncle Remus books.

In _The Voice of the People_ (1900) Ellen Glasgow has produced, in the form of fiction, an important historical document on the rise of the common man.

In _The Southerner_ (1909) Nicholas Worth (understood to be the pseudonym of a distinguished editor and diplomat) has made a careful study of conditions in North Carolina between 1875 and 1895, while Thomas Dixon in _The Leopard's Spots_ (1902) has crudely but powerfully drawn a picture of the campaign for negro disfranchisement in that State.
In his _Old Judge Priest_ stories, Irvin S.Cobb has described the rural towns of Kentucky; and Corra Harris from personal experience has given striking pictures of the rural South principally in relation to religion.