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

Edition First edition Published Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource Contents Southern Roots -- Treason and Fame -- A New Life -- New Ventures -- A National Author -- A Conservative Progressive -- Centennial Celebrations and the Failure of Reconstruction -- Exposing Government Corruption -- An Era of Nonfiction -- Images -- "A Message to be Given" -- A Return to Novel-Writing -- War Years -- Transitions -- The Widowed Writer -- 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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910 -- Friends and associates Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910 -- Family Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910. SUBJECT Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910 fast Subject Literature and society -- History -- 19th century Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century Authors, American -- 19th century -- History Women authors, American -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Authors, American Families Friendship Literature and society Women and literature Women authors, American United States Genre/Form collective biographies. Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781946684332 1946684333

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