"Anne Armstrong moved to Knoxville as a teenager in 1885 and spent her formative years in the city, growing up in west Knoxville (Cumberland Avenue and Kingston Pike, in particular), and other notable areas in what we now know as the university and downtown districts. Her first novel, This Day and Time, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1930. It is credited by scholars as the first realistic fictional account of the Appalachian region-in stark contrast to, for instance, Mary Noailles Murfree's In the Tennessee Mountains published in 1886. Behrend has written a critical introduction to the work and provides a bibliography as well as appendices of reviews and materials from the stage play that was produced from the novel"--