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soken (iou) and Welty, Eudora (sh)


soken (iou)



soken noun. See also SUCKEN.
[Old English socn = Old Norse sokn, Gothic sokns search, inquiry, from Germanic.]
An attack, an assault. rare. Only in OE.
(Habitual) resort to or visiting of a place. OE-LME.
b. spec. Resort of local tenants etc. to a particular mill to have their corn ground; the right of the mill to such custom. Cf. SOKE 3. LME-L16.
= SOKE 1. OE-ME.
Hist. = SOKE 2. OE.

Welty, Eudora (sh)




born April 13, 1909, Jackson, Miss., U.S.
died July 23, 2001, Jackson

U.S. short-story writer and novelist.

Welty focused her work on a small town that resembled her birthplace and the Delta country. Her main subject is the intricacies of human Relationships. She first gained attention for the story collection A Curtain of Green (1941), containing the widely admired "Petrified Man" and "Why I Live at the P.O." Other stories appear in The Wide Net (1943), The Golden Apples (1949), and The Bride of the Innisfallen (1955). Her novels include Delta Wedding (1946), The Ponder Heart (1954), and The Optimist's Daughter (1972, Pulitzer Prize). Her works combine humour and psychological acuity with a sharp ear for Regional speech patterns. She also published books of her photographs, including those she took while working for the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression.