Another early novel:

[Heath, James Ewell.]   Edge-Hill, or, The Family of the Fitz-Royals.
2 vols. Richmond, T. W. White, 1828.

And if you are doing short stories as well as novels, there is Edgar
Allan Poe's "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" (first published in
Godey's in April 1844).

--Jurretta Heckscher

On Jul 17, 2006, at 12:47 PM, Bland Whitley wrote:

> I'll add to this already bloated list. If you are looking for a
> selection that might confound what students (and most people generally)
> think of when they think Virginia, you could do worse than Rebecca
> Harding's "Life in the Mills." Originally published in the Atlantic
> Monthly in 1861, the story (really an undersized novel) is set in
> antebellum Wheeling, Virginia, and represents one of the earliest
> examples of American literary naturalism. Its focus on
> industrialization
> and a working class protagonist might foster some interesting
> discussions.
>
> In the shameless plug department, Harding (who later became Davis) will
> appear in an upcoming volume of the Dictionary of Virginia Biography.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Bland Whitley
> Assistant Editor
> Dictionary of Virginia Biography
> Library of Virginia
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