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Memphis in "Elly" (Location)

Submitted by sfr on Thu, 2017-02-16 16:08
Text: 
"Elly"
Location Key: 
Memphis, Tennessee
Display Label: 
Memphis
Map Icon: 
OutOfYoknapatawpha
Authority : 
Text (when unambiguous)
Other Texts Location Appears In: 
"An Error in Chemistry"
"Appendix: Compson"
"Dry September"
"Gold Is Not Always"
"Hair"
"Hand Upon the Waters"
"Knight's Gambit"
"Lion"
"Miss Zilphia Gant"
"Monk"
"Mule in the Yard"
"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek"
"Raid"
"Retreat"
"Shall Not Perish"
"Smoke"
"That Evening Sun"
"That Will Be Fine"
"The Tall Men"
"The Unvanquished"
"There Was a Queen"
"Tomorrow"
"Two Soldiers"
"Uncle Willy"
"Vendee"
Absalom, Absalom!
Flags in the Dust
Go Down, Moses
Intruder in the Dust
Light in August
Requiem for a Nun
Sanctuary
The Hamlet
The Mansion
The Reivers
The Sound and the Fury
The Town
The Unvanquished
X: 
2324
Y: 
271
Description: 

Memphis, Tennessee, is the nearest large city to Jefferson, and often appears in the Yoknapatawpha fictions. In this and other stories, many people in Jefferson regularly read "the Memphis papers" (213).

Role: 
Only Mentioned in Text
Status: 
Continuous
Types: 
City
If Authority is "Other Text(s)," specify: 
"Appendix: Compson"
"Dry September"
"Hair"
"Mule in the Yard"
"That Evening Sun"
"The Tall Men"
"There Was a Queen"
"Two Soldiers"
Flags in the Dust
Go Down, Moses
Intruder in the Dust
Light in August
Sanctuary
The Hamlet
The Reivers
The Sound and the Fury
The Unvanquished

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