The Great Meadow

By Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Michael Wynne

First published in 1930 and shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize, The Great Meadow is a historical novel set in the early days of the settling of Kentucky. Intertwined with a flowing romantic sage of young love on the Kentucky trail are richly painted scenes of colonial America.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd.
• Release date: Oct 26, 2012
• ISBN: 9781780941851

Elizabeth Madox Roberts

Elizabeth Madox Roberts was a novelist and poet, primarily known for her novels and stories set in central Kentucky’s Washington County, including The Time of Man (1926), The Great Meadow (1930), and A Buried Treasure (1931). Roberts was awarded several major prizes during her career, including the John Reed Memorial Prize in 1928, an O. Henry Award in 1930, and a Poetry Society of South Carolina prize in 1931. The Time of Man was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1926, and The Great Meadow was nominated for the same award in 1930.