Olive Tilford Dargan [SEP] date of death
Olive Tilford Dargan
Olive Tilford Dargan (January 11, 1869 – January 22, 1968) was a writer and a poet. Her early works revolved around mountain poetry. Her works like: "The Cycle's Rim, Lute and Furrow, Highland Annals "were inspired from her love of mountains and nature. Later in her career, she published novels that focuses on racism, sexism, and fascism through her feminist visions of political activism and romanticism. Her most notable works were "Call Home the Heart "and "
A Stone Came Rolling "which were written as part of her "Gastonia" novels.
Early life.
Olive Tilford Dargan was born in January 11, 1869 on a farm in Grayson County, Kentucky. She moved to the southern Ozarks with her parents Elisha Frances Tilford & Rebecca (Day) Tilford, around age eleven and started her work in elementary education. She became a teaching assistant at her Parents school until the time that she graduated. Dargan attended Peabody Teacher's College and later Radcliffe College where she met