Collection Details:

Collection Name and Number: Narena Easterling Manuscript, Accretion (Z/0138.001).
Creator/Collector: Narena Easterling.
Date(s): 1957.
Size: 0.20 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH staff Name, Year.
Provenance: Gift of Donor, of Place, State, on Date; Z/U/XXXX.XXX.
Repository: Archives & Records Services Division, Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Rights and Access:

Access restrictions: Collection is open for research.

Publication rights: Copyright assigned to the MDAH. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to Reference Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the MDAH as the owner of the physical items and as the owner of the copyright in items created by the donor. Although the copyright was transferred by the donor, the respective creator may still hold copyright in some items in the collection. For further information, contact Reference Services.

Copyright notice: This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Preferred citation: Narena Easterling Manuscript, Accretion (Z/0138.001), Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Biography:

Narena Brooks Easterling

Narena Brooks was born on December 12, 1890, in Zanesville, Muskingum County, Ohio, the daughter of Martha E. Davis (1854- and George W. Brooks (1853-1898). In 1908, she married Lamar Fitzhugh Easterling (1883-1958), who was a judge of the 5th Chancery District and an assistant attorney general. She was a member of St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Jackson.

She graduated from the University of Ohio and Columbia University. She authored several novels with southern Louisiana culture and characters, including Louisiana Lady. She received an honorary membership into the Mark Twain Society for her work A Strange Way Home. She also authored numerous short stories and articles. Several of her short stories were published in Young’s Magazine, The Detective Story Magazine, Home Life, and Everywoman’s World, as well as articles in The Editor: The Journal of Information for Literary Workers. Sometimes she used the pen name Renee Easterling.

Narena Brooks Easterling died on September 26, 1957, at the age of 66, in Jackson, and was buried in Cedarlawn Cemetery.

Narena Easterling’s published works:
Broken Lights: A Novel (1929).
The Southern Moon (1938).
Louisiana Lady (1941).
Peter and Anne (1942).
A Strange Way Home (1952).
Gifts from God: Two Stories (1953).

 
Scope and Content Note:

Typescript of short story, "Hard to Take," by Narena Easterling, written under the name of Renee Easterling.

 

Series Identification:

Series 1: Manuscript. 1957. 1 linear inch.
Typescript of short story, "Hard to Take," by Narena Easterling.
Box 1, Folder 1