"Supplies a valuable history of the women's rights movement in Kentucky, and also introduces the reader to an overlooked author of compassionate and witty fiction."—Bonnie Jean Cox, former director of the University of Kentucky's Women and Gender Studies program
"Lynn Niedermeier's book is biography at its best. She weaves the threads of the writer's compelling life into a masterwork that will satisfy, inspire, and endure. Offering a wealth of new information about a little understood writer and activist, it tells a remarkably good story."—Morris A. Grubbs, editor of Home and Beyond
"This well-documented biography follows the activities of the poet, essayist, author and folk art historian. Neidermeier presents a compelling picture of a woman who survives the upheaval of a family scandal and becomes a teacher, writer, housewife, mother and widow. She has given us a timeless story of an ordinary but still extraordinary woman who finds the requirements of being a wife and mother interfering with her creative pursuits."—Carol Crowe Carraco, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green Daily News
"Through careful scrutiny of the three parallel tracks of Lida's life, she [Niedermeier] sheds light on the process by which critical changes in women's legal and political rights took place. . . . Carefully researched and insightfully arranged, this book reveals striking commonalities in the lived experience of women across generations."—Ohio Valley History
"Eliza Calvert Hall will interest historians of woman suffrage, those tracing the influence of mainline Protestantism on nineteenth-century economic behavior, literary historians, scholars of women's careers from frontier to modernity in the South, and students of family dynamics."—Journal of American History
"This biography will be enjoyed by readers of Kentucky history, women's literature and politics, and, especially, the Aunt Jane of Kentucky stories. It is needed in every library of Kentucky, and of colleges and universities elsewhere."—Kentucky Philological Review
"This book has much to recommend it. It is well-written, carefully researched, and brings to light a woman long overlooked by women's historians."—West Virginia History
"Lynn E. Niedermeier's Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author and Suffragist offers a thoroughly fascinating biography of a long-neglected author and women's rights advocate."—Journal of Southern History
"Eliza Calvert Hall: Kentucky Author and Suffragist is insightful...depicts an intelligent and courageous woman who deserves to be rediscovered and acknowledged as a pioneer for women's rights."—Northern Kentucky Herritage
