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Rebecca Harding Davis : a life among writers / Sharon M. Harris

Author
Harris, Sharon M.
Published
Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
493 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Southern Roots (Ancestry to Mid-1861) -- 2.Treason and Fame (April 1861-March 1863) -- 3.A New Life (May 1863-May 1865) -- 4.New Ventures (June 1865-December 1867) -- 5.A National Author (1868-1870) -- 6.A Conservative Progressive (1871-1875) -- 7.Centennial Celebrations and the Failure of Reconstruction (1876-1879) -- 8.Exposing Government Corruption (1880-1884) -- 9.An Era of Nonfiction (1885-1889) -- 10."A Message to Be Given" (1890-1893) -- 11.A Return to Novel-Writing (1894-1896) -- 12.War Years (1897-1899) -- 13.Transitions (1900-1904) -- 14.The Widowed Writer (1905-1910) -- 15.Final Pages: Richard, Charles, and Nora.
Summary
"Rebecca Harding Davis is best known for her gritty short story "Life in the Iron-Mills," set in her native Wheeling, West Virginia. Far less is known of her later career among elite social circles in Philadelphia, New York, and Europe, or her relationships with American presidents and leading international figures in the worlds of literature and the stage. In the first book-length biography of Davis, Sharon M. Harris traces the extraordinary life of this pioneering realist and recovers her status as one of America's notable women journalists. Harris also examines Rebecca's role as the leading member of the Davis family, a unique and nationally recognized family of writers that shaped the changing culture of later nineteenth-century literature and journalism. This accessible treatment of Davis's life, based on deep research in archival sources, provides new perspective on topics ranging from sectional tensions in the border South to the gendered world of nineteenth-century publishing. It promises to be the authoritative treatment of an important figure in the literary history of West Virginia and the wider world"--
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ISBN
9781946684301 hardcover
1946684309 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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