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Fair and Tender Ladies

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Fair and Tender Ladies
First edition
AuthorLee Smith
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical novel
PublisherG.P. Putnam & Son
Publication date
1988
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardback and Paperback)
ISBN0-399-13382-8
OCLC18315757
813/.54 19
LC ClassPS3569.M5376 F28 1988
Preceded byFamily Linen 
Followed byMe and My Baby View the Eclipse 

Fair and Tender Ladies is a novel by Lee Smith published in 1988. It won the W.D. Weatherford Award that year.[1] Fair and Tender Ladies is an epistolary novel consisting entirely of letters written by its protagonist, Ivy Rowe, to numerous recipients from her childhood until her old age. It is set mostly in the Blue Ridge Mountains and covers events from shortly before World War I until the Vietnam era. The novel garnered much critical acclaim and has been adapted for the stage, including a musical version for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

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  1. ^ "Weatherford Award". Berea College. 2009. Archived from the original on February 6, 2012. Retrieved November 1, 2015.