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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Edward Jefferson Welty
Edward Jefferson Welty
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Welty, Edward Jefferson
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Eudora Welty
EW
's mother,
Chestina Welty
, died at the age of eighty-two, closely followed by her son
Edward
, Eudora's only surviving brother.
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Marrs, Suzanne.
Eudora Welty: A Biography
. Harcourt, Inc., 2005.
320
Family and Intimate relationships
Eudora Welty
EW
's parents had previously had a son, born in 1906, who died at the age of fifteen months. He was named after Eudora's father.
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Welty, Eudora.
One Writer’s Beginnings
. Harvard University Press, 1984.
17-18
She had two brothers,
Edward Jefferson Welty
and
Walter Andrews Welty
Family and Intimate relationships
Eudora Welty
Edward
had suffered an accident in late 1965 which left him critically injured with a broken neck, only weeks before Chestina was hospitalized.
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Marrs, Suzanne.
Eudora Welty: A Biography
. Harcourt, Inc., 2005.
320
Just four days after her death he developed a brain infection...
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