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Rebecca Harding Davis - Writing Cultural Autobiography (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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Rebecca Harding Davis - Writing Cultural Autobiography (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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Nineteenth-century fiction writer and journalist Rebecca Harding
Davis (1831-1910) is best known for her novella Life in the Iron
Mills. Its publication in 1861 launched her stunning fifty-year
career that yielded a corpus of some 500 published works, including
short stories, novels, novellas, sketches, and social commentary.
Davis's unique mode of writing anticipated literary realism twenty
years before the time usually associated with its genesis. Today,
her life and work continue to figure prominently in the study of
American literature and culture. Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing
Cultural Autobiography is the annotated edition of her 1904
autobiography, Bits of Gossip, and a previously unpublished family
history written for her children. The memoirs are not traditional
autobiography; rather, they are Davis's perspective on the
extraordinary cultural changes that occurred during her lifetime
and of the remarkable - and sometimes scandalous - people who
shaped the events. She provides intimate portraits of the famous
people she knew, including Emerson, Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott,
Ann Stephens, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Horace Greeley. Equally
important are Davis's commentaries on the political activists of
the Civil War era, from Abraham Lincoln to Booker T. Washington,
from the ""daughters of the Southland"" to Lucretia Mott, from
Henry Ward Beecher to William Still. Whereas Bits of Gossip expands
our understanding of Davis as cultural critic and observer of life,
the family history offers new information on Davis's early life and
the influences that led her to become one of the nineteenth
century's pioneering Realists and cultural commentators. Together
they bring a human voice to the nineteenth-century American milieu.
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