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Matt (Martha Jane) Crim
A late-19th-century American writer who published as Matt Crim, she is best remembered for vivid stories set in Georgia and the U.S. South. Her work is often noted for its local-color style and its attention to regional speech and everyday life.
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In Beaver Cove and Elsewhere
by Matt (Martha Jane) Crim
About the author
Matt Crim was the pen name of Martha Jane Crim, an American author active in the late 1800s. Her best-known book, In Beaver Cove and Elsewhere (1892), is a collection of stories set largely in Georgia, and it has continued to circulate through libraries, reprints, and public-domain editions.
Booksellers and library records also credit her with works including Adventures of a Fair Rebel and Elizabeth, Christian Scientist. The surviving reference material on her life is fairly sparse, but the record that does exist points to a writer whose fiction belonged to the regional or "local color" tradition popular in the 19th century.
Because biographical information about her is limited in widely available sources, much of her lasting reputation rests on the fiction itself: atmospheric Southern settings, strong storycraft, and an interest in the voices and habits of ordinary people.