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14916
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Ten women, out of the many influential females in the state, are highlighted for their distinguished service to North Carolina. The ten include: Dolly Madison, Flora MacDonald, Cornelia Spencer, Francis Fisher Tiernan, Susan Dimock, Elizabeth Ann Macrae, Katherine Shipp, Fannie E. S. Heck, Delia Dixon-Carroll. These women were selected because of affiliation with advances in education, literature, medicine, politics, warfare from the colonial period to the 1940s.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 11 Issue 25, Nov 1943, p1-2, 24, 26, il
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24838
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Tourism agencies call Western North Carolina “The Land of the Sky,” but few know the history of how the phrase was coined. In 1875, Salisbury author Frances Fisher Tiernan. known professionally as Christian Reid, published “The Land of the Sky; or, Adventures in Mountain By-Ways,” which was set in Western North Carolina. The book was extremely popular and within a few years, the title became a common marketing phrase for hotels and other businesses in the region.
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10040
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Rogers recounts the life and literary accomplishments of Frances Fisher Tiernan, who, under the pen name “Christian Reid,” wrote almost fifty novels. The title of her most famous novel, THE LAND OF SKY, gave the phrase that has forever described the state's mountains.
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We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 1 Issue 12, Apr 1944, p12-14, 30, il, por, bibl
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18529
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Frances Christine Tiernan (nee Fisher) of Salisbury wrote under the pseudonym Christian Reid. She was a prolific writer of short stories, serialized novelettes, and 46 published books during the 19th- and early 20th-century. Her most remembered book is The Land of Sky, which became a descriptive name for western North Carolina. She died of pneumonia and is buried in Salisbury.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 9 Issue 47, Apr 1942, p3, 20
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32986
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The author calls to your attention some of the literary geniuses of North Carolina whose works attained national and international recognition. The list include such names as Thomas Wolfe, James Boyd and Thomas Dixon.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 11 Issue 52, May 1944, p6, 25
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15404
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The slogan \"The Land of the Sky\" was adopted to represent the mountainous western portion of the state. Miss Frances Christine Fisher wrote a novel about a North Carolina family moving from the Piedmont area to the mountains. While she lived in Salisbury the author penned the aforementioned novel, and two plays \"The Princess Nadine and \"Under the Southern Cross\" all under the pseudonym Christian Reid.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 3 Issue 16, Sept 1935, p3, il
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3302
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Frances Fisher, who wrote under the pen name Christian Reid, wrote almost fifty novels. The title of her most famous novel, THE LAND OF SKY, gave the phrase that has forever described the state's mountains.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 56 Issue 12, May 1989, p46-49, il, por
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