JULIA A. FLISCH, OLD HURRICANE

Julia A. Flisch’s Old Hurricane (1925) was a Southern local color novel set on a Georgia farm. It was “that type of narrative which, in recent journalistic verbiage, is known as an ‘epic of the soil,’” Saturday Review of Literature said somewhat dismissively. And the Independent, again in benign rebuff, called it “a good sort of story for city folk to read.”

Flisch published her first novel in 1886, spent her life as a teacher at colleges and universities in Wisconsin and Georgia, and was an activist for women’s rights. She was refused entry to the University of Georgia because she was a woman, and received an honorary degree from them 20 years later.

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