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What does a young woman owe to home when her hopes reach beyond the hills?
In Eliot H. Robinson’s 'Smiles': A Rose of the Cumberlands, the Appalachian hills form the world of a warm-hearted romance. Its heroine, known as Smiles, is a bright, kind young woman in a rough mountain setting. The Cumberland ridges and hollows give this story of rural life its home.
The novel belongs to a tradition that looks closely at families, local speech and hard daily work. Its central concerns are love, sacrifice and the courage to dream beyond familiar hills. Through Smiles, it invites you to consider the pull of belonging alongside the hope of a wider life, without dismissing the claims of either.
What you’ll discover
- A bright mountain heroine Meet Smiles, whose kindness stands out against the roughness of her mountain world.
- A place to enter Step among Cumberland ridges and hollows, where rural life gives the story its roots.
- Home and wider horizons Consider the quiet tension between loyalty to family and the courage to pursue dreams.
- Warmth at its heart Spend time with a romance shaped by love, sacrifice and hope beyond the hills.
- The ties of community Explore a world where families, daily work and local speech deserve close attention.
Who will love it
For readers who love gentle regional fiction, warm-hearted romance and stories about families and small communities, with mountain life, loyalty and the pull of personal dreams.
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- The Cumberland hills as a world
- A heroine known by her nickname
- Duty to family and the pull of dreams
- How a story like this is told
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'Smiles': A Rose of the Cumberlands
by Eliot H. Robinson · 1919
In the Cumberland hills, a cheerful young heroine faces the pull of family duty and the hope of a wider life.
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Smiles: A Rose of the Cumberlands is a novel by Eliot H. Robinson, an American writer of the early twentieth century.
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The Cumberland hills as a world
The title places the story in the Cumberland Mountains, a long stretch of ridges and hollows in the southern Appalachians. Fiction from this region usually treats the land as more than scenery. The hills shape how people farm, how far they travel and whom they know.
In such stories, neighbors are bound together by kinship, church and long memory. News moves slowly, and a stranger from the lowlands is noticed at once. Readers of this kind of book can expect close, affectionate attention to place.
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What is Smiles: A Rose of the Cumberlands about?
It is a novel of mountain life set in the Cumberland region of the American South. It centers on a cheerful young heroine nicknamed Smiles, and on family duty, sacrifice and the hope of a wider life.
Who wrote Smiles: A Rose of the Cumberlands?
The novel was written by Eliot H. Robinson, an American author of the early twentieth century who wrote regional fiction about life in the Appalachian hills.
Where are the Cumberlands?
The Cumberland Mountains are part of the southern Appalachians, running through parts of Kentucky, Tennessee and neighboring states. They are the setting for many stories of rural mountain families.
The author
Eliot H. Robinson
American novelist
Eliot H. Robinson was an American author of the early twentieth century. He is known for Smiles: A Rose of the Cumberlands, a regional novel set in the mountains of the American South. His work belongs to the tradition of warm, sentimental fiction about rural life.
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