Books by Elizabeth Madox Roberts

Considered her finest work and an American classic, Roberts's novel traces the coming of age of Ellen Chesser, the daughter of a poor itinerant farmer. Reduced to the bare elements of life, her world becomes a ceremony of daily duties that bind her to the natural world and her family.

Set at the time of the western migration from Piedmont Virginia to her native Kentucky, Ms. Roberts's novel recounts the heroism of the Kentucky pioneer. Roberts was that rare thing, a true artist.. She was one of the indispensables.-Robert Penn Warren. Southern Classics Series.

Winner of Hesperus' 'Uncover a Classic' competition The Great Meadow is a romantic saga of young love on the Kentucky trail in colonial America. A long neglected American classic.