![]() ![]() The titular courtship begins when widower and father of seven Ancil Drayton starts calling on Hattie. ![]() Hattie’s and Reed’s relationship at the novel’s outset is almost sibling-like. ![]() He sharecrops the land with the intention of purchasing the farm once he has the money saved. The other main character, Reed Tyler, who is five years Hattie’s junior, has worked the farm since he was eight years old. The titular character, Hattie Colfax, is a plain-looking, twenty-nine-year-old “spinster” and owner of a small cotton farm in a rural county whose economic viability is dependent upon cotton. The physical description of the county seat recalls Osceola ( Mississippi C ounty ), but this is not specified. The county where the story takes place is also depicted as being significantly north of Helena (Phillips County). Although no exact location is named in the book, the most likely setting for the novel is northeastern Arkansas based on references to the New Madrid earthquakes, descriptions of the topography, mentions of crops raised ( cotton and the new crop, rice, whose introduction to the area is a subplot of the novel), and proximity to the Mississippi River. The time frame is established by a reference in the book to the New Madrid earthquakes (1811–1812) having occurred 100 years prior. The novel is set in Arkansas around 1911. Courting Miss Hattie is a 1992 romance novel by award-winning author Pamela Morsi. ![]()
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