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acknowledgments

My first debt of gratitude must go to Emma Bell Miles herself for providing such rich material to work with, then to her children, all deceased now, for their generous willingness to help in my endeavors that started long ago. I am grateful to the late Dr. Charles Perdue and Dr. Harold Kolb of the University of Virginia who encouraged me to follow my heart in my desire to make this little-known author the subject of my academic study. To my students, colleagues, and friends over the past decades, I offer thanks for their ongoing interest in Miles and my work with her. Scholar and Miles aficionado Kay Gaston proved to be an invaluable resource in those early days and has continued in that role in more recent times. Dr. Katerina Prajznerova, because of her passion for Miles’s work, inspired me to refresh my study of Miles and to pursue publication of this book. Steven Cox has been a stalwart supporter for many years, helping me access materials from the Miles collections on my various research trips to Lupton Library at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Most recently he has scanned numerous photographs and artworks from the originals for use in this volume. To all of these I am grateful for their help and encouragement. To editors Rick Huard and Gillian Berchowitz of Ohio University Press, along with their conscientious staff members, I extend my warm thanks for their assistance in bringing this book to print. And I am forever indebted to my immediate and extended family, whose unflagging support I can always count on. Finally to my husband, John Nemeth, my most ardent and always helpful enthusiast, I will simply say, “Thank you for being.”

G.T.E.