Ivy Rowe's Fair And Tender Ladies

The book "Fair and Tender Ladies" is a manifesto of women's writing and personal look at the great history of literature. The author creates an epistolary novel in which offers to read the letters of women, who began writing at the age of ten and continued to write until her old age. At the beginning of the book we meet the main character as a little girl who describes her world with a simple thought and naive language with a lot of errors and dialect. The audience realizes that this girl is an active carrier of Appalachian culture, and the Appalachian consciousness. Subsequently, the girl grows up and begins her journey to different cities of the South, but never feels calm at those places, and so at the end of her life, she returns to the

The author cuts the original name that deprives its old form "ye". The song tells of a woman who is going through unhappy love and therefore compares herself to a sparrow, which can fly from a loved one or to fly to a loved one. Ivy Rowe writes letters to her sisters and friends, describes the lives of other women (sisters, daughters), so the phrase "fair and tender ladies" can be seen as a common name, an appeal to all women of the Appalachian Mountains. Also, as the name suggests that this novel is not a personal history and collective history of women. However, it should be said that although Ivy Rowe was experiencing several loves in her life, it is not necessary to associate her to a "sparrow" with the loss and the pain of unrequited love. Her main love throughout the novel is the land on which she grew. That is why she first said "I'd fly away / to my false true lover / and when he'd speak / I would deny” (Folklore), the novel that affects her travel to different cities, until it "I'll sit right down / in my grief and sorrow, / and let my troubles / pass me by." (Folklore) and ends her life in his hometown. Also, her last letter, written to a dead friend, tells the story of a close death of Ivy Rowe, so she returns to her childhood memories too. Such a conclusion reminiscent of the structure of a fairy tale in which the hero returns home after wandering. At home, all remains as if nothing had happened, but the hero has changed, and therefore chooses to live happily ever after in the illusions, or get acquainted with the new realities of his old