Daughter of the Hills: A Woman's Part in the Coal Miners' Struggle (Novel of the Thirties) - Softcover

"One of the most impressive proletarian characters in our literature."
--Richard Wright

"Myra Page has captured the feeling tone of the harsh struggle for life in a mining community. She has brought to us a woman who is remarkable not because she represents a unique experience, but because she evokes the lives of so many non-urban women."
--Alice Kessler-Harris

"The heroism of Dolly Hawkins lies both in her resistance to exploitation and in her sheer love of life--her capacity to live it fully even in the face of deprivation and loss. This is a text that refuses to sever sexuality and work, love and social protest. Daugher of the Hills, in fact, is both a heterosexual love story and a novel of social protest. The combination is curiously rare in American literary history."
--Deborah S. Rosenfelt

Dolly Hawkins struggles to hold her family together in the thirties when her husband loses his leg in a coal mine accident