How Long to Read Sketches of Alabama

How Long Does it Take to Read Sketches of Alabama?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 52 minutes to read Sketches of Alabama by Mary Gordon Duffee

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Mary Gordon Duffee's father, Matthew Duffee was born in Ireland and immigrated to Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1823. In Tuscaloosa he operated a popular tavern, and he later bought a resort hotel at Blount Springs. Mary Duffee was born in Alabama in 1840 and spent many summers with her family at the resort. It was the journey to and from Blount Springs that inspired Duffee's best-known work, Sketches of Alabama, which originally appeared as fifty-nine articles in the Birmingham Weekly Iron Age in 1886 and 1887. She also contributed articles to several out-of-state newspapers, wrote guide books, advertising copy, and poetry. She died in 1920. This collection contains typescripts of some of Mary Gordon Duffee's Iron Age columns "Sketches of Alabama," manuscripts of seven of Duffee's poems, a typed biographical sketch of Duffee, undated, and Duffee's obituary from the Birmingham Age-Herald.

How long is Sketches of Alabama?

Sketches of Alabama by Mary Gordon Duffee is 109 pages long, and a total of 28,231 words.

This makes it 37% the length of the average book. It also has 35% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Sketches of Alabama Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 34 minutes to read Sketches of Alabama aloud.

What Reading Level is Sketches of Alabama?

Sketches of Alabama is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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