These books and other documents aimed at a general audience present Martha Freeman as a constant figure in the life of Martha Berry.
Tracy Byers taught English and did publicity for the Berry Schools. Writing in the Macon Telegraph, Eloise H. Alexander called <i>Sunday Lady</i> "one of the outstanding biographies of the year." (11 Dec 1932, p.8) Note that his chapter on Martha Berry's father includes a significant number of factual errors.
Inez Wooten Henry entered the Martha Berry School for Girls in fall 1919 and graduated in May 1921. In 1922 she began working in Martha Berry's office, later becoming her personal secretary and traveling companion. In 1956 Henry worked with novelist Harnett Kane to write the first biographic treatment of Martha Berry's life, Miracle in the Mountains.
Joyce Blackburn was a radio producer turned writer who lived and worked on St. Simon's Island, Georgia. <i>Atlanta Constitution</i> columnist Celestine Sibley wrote that Blackburn "tells afresh some of the old stories about the gently reared, strong-willed daughter of Southern plantation aristocracy and gets in some that I don't remember hearing before." (17 Sep 1968, p.5)
As the daughter of Edward Hoge and Caroline Bostick, Evelyn Hoge grew up on the Berry campus. Hoge was business manager of the Berry Schools beginning in 1910 and Bostick director of the school's home economics department. She later returned to Berry as a faculty member in the English department and wrote both prose and poetry reflecting her lifelong connection with the school. In <i>A Lady I loved</i> she writes vividly of her experience of life in the Berry circle from childhood through Martha Berry's death in 1942.