21. Fiction: Rebecca Harding Davis Back to List Rebecca Harding Davis (18311910) LINKS Perspectives in American LiteratureLate Nineteenth-Century Realism and Rebecca Harding Davis http//www http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/fiction/davis.htm

MM_preloadImages('../images/m_research_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_related_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_literary_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_critical_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_essays_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_poetry_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_drama_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_fiction_o.gif'); Rebecca Harding Davis LINKS Perspectives in American Literature: Late Nineteenth-Century Realism and Rebecca Harding Davis http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap5/davis.html BIOGRAPHY Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) was born Rebecca Blaine Harding in Washington, Pennsylvania. Around 1836 the Harding family moved to the industrial city of Wheeling, West Virginia, where Davis's father became a successful businessman. Davis graduated from Washington Female Seminary in Pennsylvania as class valedictorian in 1848 and then returned to the family home in Wheeling, where she remained for the next twelve years. In the late 1850s, Davis began publishing reviews and stories in a local newspaper. In December 1860, the unknown author sent the manuscript of her novella

22. Davis, Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis, Rebecca Blaine Harding. (18311910), essayist and writer RebeccaHarding was born on June 24, 1831, in Washington, Pennsylvania. http://www.britannica.com/women/articles/Davis_Rebecca_Blaine_Harding.html

Davis, Rebecca Blaine Harding (1831-1910), essayist and writer Rebecca Harding was born on June 24, 1831, in Washington, Pennsylvania. She graduated from the Washington (Pennsylvania) Female Seminary in 1848. An avid reader, she had begun dabbling in the writing of verse and stories in her youth. Some of her early pieces were published, but her reputation as an author of startlingly realistic, sometimes grim, portraits of life began only with the publication of her story "Life in the Iron Mills" in the Atlantic Monthly in April 1861. From 1861 to 1862 the Atlantic serialized a story that appeared in book form in the latter year as Margaret Howth. In March 1863 Harding married L. Clarke Davis of Philadelphia, later an editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Over the next three decades Rebecca Davis' fiction, children's stories, essays, and articles appeared regularly in most of the leading magazines of the day, and from 1869 she was for several years also a contributing editor of the New York Tribune.

23. Frances Waldeaux Davis, Rebecca Harding, 18311910. Frances Waldeaux Electronic TextCenter, University of Virginia Library. The entire work (230 http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DavFran.html

Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910. Frances Waldeaux Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library The entire work 230 KB Table of Contents for this work All on-line databases Etext Center Homepage Header ... Chapter 20

24. An Old-Time Love Story Davis, Rebecca Harding, 18311910. An Old-Time Love Story ElectronicText Center, University of Virginia Library. The entire work http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/DavTime.html

Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910. An Old-Time Love Story Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library The entire work 13 KB Table of Contents for this work All on-line databases Etext Center Homepage Header ... Story Davis, Rebecca Harding. "An Old-Time Love Story." Century Magazine 77 (Dec. 1908): 219-221. Author of Silhouettes of American Life," "Bits of Gossip," etc.

25. Rebecca Harding Davis, 1831-1910. Bits Of Gossip Bits of Gossip Electronic Edition. Davis, Rebecca Harding, 18311910.Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/davisr/davis.html

Bits of Gossip: Electronic Edition Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910 Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title. Text scanned (OCR) by Jordan Davis Text encoded by Jill Kuhn and Natalia Smith First edition, 1997. ca. 350K Academic Affairs Library, UNC-CH University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Call number PS1517 .B5 1904 (Davis Library, UNC-CH) Documenting the American South, or, The Southern Experience in 19th-century America.         All double right and left quotation marks are encoded as " and " respectively. Library of Congress Subject Headings, 21st edition, 1998 LC Subject Headings: Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910 Childhood and youth. Southern States Social life and customs. Women Southern States Social life and customs. Natalia Smith, project editor, finished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing. Jill Kuhn finished TEI/SGML encoding Jordan Davis finished scanning (OCR) and proofing.

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27. Work And Society -- Rebecca Harding Davis Bibliography As Davis continued publishing her stories she became a writer whose viewsbecame nationally acclaimed. Rebecca Harding Davis, 18311910. http://bizntech.rutgers.edu/worknlit/davis_bib.html

Return Home Course Texts Requirements Syllabus ... How to Use the Forum Rebecca Harding Davis By Jo Glenn Online Resources Rebecca Harding Davis was born on June 24, 1831 in Washington, Pennsylvania. Educated at home until the age of fourteen, she then attended Washington Female Seminary. After graduation Davis returned home where she honed her writing skills. Davis was one of the pioneers of the writing style that came to be known as American realism. This style of writing contained profound social commentary about the many of the issues facing society. As Davis continued publishing her stories she became a writer whose views became nationally acclaimed. Rebecca Harding Davis, 1831-1910 The first of Davis's works to be published was "Life on the Iron-Mills" (

28. Rebecca Harding Davis here s what one reviewer said about Rebecca Harding Davis Writing Cultural AutobiographyRebecca Harding Davis (18311910) was a fiction writer and journalist http://www.abacci.com/books/authorDetails.asp?authorID=332

29. Rebecca Harding Davis Nineteenthcentury fiction writer and journalist Rebecca Harding Davis(1831-1910) is best known for her novella Life in the Iron Mills. http://www.vanderbilt.edu/vupress/lasseter.html

Rebecca Harding Davis Writing Cultural Autobiography Edited by Janice Milner Lasseter and Sharon M. Harris 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 remarkableand sometimes scandalouspeople 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

30. Wheeling Hall Of Fame:Rebecca Harding Davis Rebecca Harding Davis 18311910 Fine Arts. Inducted 1984. Rebecca HardingDavis was a pioneer in literary realism. In 1861, when her http://wheeling.weirton.lib.wv.us/people/hallfame/1984davi.htm

R EBECCA H ARDING D AVIS Fine Arts Inducted 1984 Rebecca Harding Davis was a pioneer in literary realism. In 1861, when her story, "Life in the Iron Mills," was published anonymously in The Atlantic Monthly, few people in Wheeling could have imagined that this novella about human tragedy had been written by their 30-year-old spinster neighbor, Rebecca Harding. Born in Washington, Pa., in 1831, she had lived in Wheeling from the age of five. Her English-born father, Richard, was an insurance executive and also city treasurer for 14 years. As a teen-ager, she attended Washington Female Seminary, where she was graduated valedictorian in 1848. There was nothing in her upbringing to suggest she would be able to picture so vividly the grim life of immigrant industrial workers and their harsh working conditions. However, she was obviously influence by the change in Wheeling from an idyllic Virginia village to a smoke-filled milltown. The Civil War created an even more dramatic change in Wheeling and in subsequent work, no longer anonymous, she told of the "general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life." She described the savagery of war and her talent drew the admiration of the New England writers Emerson, Holmes, Alcott and her favorite, Nathaniel Hawthorne all of whom she met while traveling with her brother to Boston. She also caught the attention of Philadelphia lawyer L. Clarke Davis. They struck up a correspondence, soon met and were engaged. They were married in St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Wheeling during a March snowstorm in '63 and took up residence in Philadelphia.

31. Rebecca Harding Davis DH Ramsey Library. Rebecca Harding Davis 18311910. Born in PennsylvaniaRebecca Harding Davis grew up in the mill town of Big Spring http://dd1.library.appstate.edu/Women/hardingdavis1.htm

D.H. Ramsey Library Rebecca Harding Davis Born in Pennsylvania Rebecca Harding Davis grew up in the mill town of Big Spring, Alabama where her observations of the changes brought about by industrialization had a life-long influence on the themes of her writing. She saw the conditions of women, particularly working women, as a "...tragedy more real ... than any other in life." Illustration for "By-paths in the Mountains," by Davis In her many articles for Atlantic Monthly, for Appletons, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, The Century, Lippencott's and Scribner's, and other journals and magazines, she sought to expose inequities through the real and the commonplace. Her fiction often characterized as radical by her readers, moved from addressing the abuse of workers by industrial capitalists, to prostitution, to slavery. In her desire to expose life's inequities she pulled from incidences of "accurate history" ... closely observed human interactions and non-glorified depictions of daily life sometimes startling in their brutal opinion. She was not necessarily a sympathetic observer. She frequently pointed out life and geography that was "peculiar" and exotic to her and by doing so, distanced herself from the experience and revealed her romantic heritage. She often traveled to western North Carolina and her serialized article about the region, "By-Paths in the Mountains," for

32. Jane Murray's Thanksgiving By Rebecca Harding Davis : Arthur's Classic Novels Davis, Rebecca Harding, 18311910 . Jane Murray s Thanksgiving StoryElectronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library Jane http://arthursclassicnovels.com/arthurs/davis/janemr10.html

This document was prepared from borrowed etext. XHTML XHTML markup is by Arthur Wendover. July 20, 2001. (See source file for details.) This is the etext version of the book Jane Murray's Thanksgiving by Rebecca Harding Davis, taken from the original etext janemr10.txt. Arthur's Classic Novels Jane Murray's Thanksgiving By Rebecca Harding Davis IT was late in October and the Woman's Academy of Starboro was waking from its Summer's doze, and making ready for the Winter's work. The Academy, being a feeder for a great Woman's College, stood, so its prospectus declared, "in the van of the Movement for the Highest Development of Woman." Even the gardeners, who were taking up the dead leaves on the great lawns which sloped from the pillared porches to the bay, and the scrubbers, flooding the classrooms, their skirts pinned up and their heads swathed in dusty cheesecloth, worked as if they knew the tremendous importance of this building to the world's progress. Miss Clemens, the Principal, gave them a stately nod of approval. She knew that they would not work so hard in an ordinary house. "Even these poor shreds of womanhood are driven by the Zeit-Geist upward upward!" She repeated the word aloud. She always felt that the spirit of a great reformer was on fire within her gaunt, tall body. She went round the veranda to find the painters, who should have been at work days ago, and observed that the windows of the apartment occupied by the Professor of Literature were open. She stopped, catching her breath with a look of annoyance.

33. Blind Tom By Rebecca Harding Davis : Arthur's Classic Novels Davis, Rebecca Harding, 18311910 . Blind Tom Electronic Text Center,University of Virginia Library Blind Tom Davis, Rebecca Harding http://arthursclassicnovels.com/arthurs/davis/bltom10.html

This document was prepared from borrowed etext. XHTML XHTML markup is by Arthur Wendover. July 20, 2001. (See source file for details.) This is the etext version of the book Blind Tom by Rebecca Harding Davis, taken from the original etext bltom10.txt. Arthur's Classic Novels Blind Tom by Rebecca Harding Davis Only a germ in a withered flower, That the rain will bring out sometime. SOMETIME Mr. Oliver did his duty well to the boy, being an observant and thoroughly kind master. The plantation was large, heartsome, faced the sun, swarmed with little black urchins, with plenty to eat, and nothing to do. It was not until 1857 that those phenomenal powers latent in the boy were suddenly developed, which stamped him the anomaly he is to-day. One night, sometime in the summer of that year, Mr. Oliver's family were wakened by the sound of music in the drawing-room: not only the simple airs, but the most difficult exercises usually played by his daughters, were repeated again and again, the touch of the musician being timid, but singularly true and delicate. Going down, they found Tom, who had been left asleep in the hall, seated at the piano in an ecstasy of delight, breaking out at the end of each successful fugue into shouts of laughter, kicking his heels and clapping his hands. This was the first time he had touched the piano. Mr. Oliver, as we said, was indulgent. Tom was allowed to have constant access to the piano; in truth, he could not live without it; when deprived of music now, actual physical debility followed: the gnawing Something had found its food at last. No attempt was made, however, to give him any scientific musical teaching; nor I wish it distinctly borne in mind has he ever at any time received such instruction.

34. Rebecca Harding Davis, "Out Of The Sea," Part I return to Index. Out of the Sea. by Rebecca Harding Davis (18311910).Text from Atlantic Monthly, 15 (May 1865), 533-550. A raw, gusty http://www.pittstate.edu/engl/nichols/davis.html

@import "layoutstory6.css"; NOTE: If you can see this message, it means your browser does not support current web standards, specifically style sheets. This site will look much better in a browser like Internet Explorer that supports web standards , but it is accessible to any browser or internet device. Women's Short Fictions: A Nineteenth-Century Online Anthology return to Index Out of the Sea by Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) Text from Atlantic Monthly , 15 (May 1865), 533-550 "Yonder go the shades of Ossian's heroes," said Mary Defourchet to her companion, pointing through the darkening air. They were driving carefully in an old-fashioned gig, in one of the lulls of the storm, along the edge of a pine wood, early in the afternoon. The old Doctor, — for it was MacAulay, (Dennis,) from over in Monmouth County, she was with, — the old man did not answer, having enough to do to guide his mare, the sleet drove so in his eyes. Besides, he was gruffer than usual this afternoon, looking with the trained eyes of an old water-dog out to the yellow line of the sea to the north. Miss Defourchet pulled the oil-skin cloth closer about her knees, and held her tongue; she relished the excitement of this fierce fighting the wind, though; it suited the nervous tension which her mind had undergone lately.

35. Countrybookshop.co.uk - Rebecca Harding Davis Synopsis Nineteenthcentury fiction writer and journalist Rebecca HardingDavis (1831-1910) is best known for her novella Life in the Iron Mills. http://www.countrybookshop.co.uk/books/index.phtml?whatfor=0826513840

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web hosting domain names email addresses The Mad Cybrarian's Library Rebecca Harding Davis A Middle-Aged Woman (UVa) (30 KB) An Ignoble Martyr (UVa) March 1890 (35 KB) An Old-Time Love Story (UVa) (13 KB) Anne (UVa) (30 KB) Bits of Gossip (HTML and TEI at UNC) Blind Tom (UVa) (25 KB) Frances Waldeaux (UVa) . Illustrations. (230 KB) TOC (HTI) TXT 205 Kb - ZIP 90 Kb SL: TXT ZIP EN: TXT ZIP Jane Murray's Thanksgiving Story (UVa) . Illustrations. (25 KB) Life in the Iron-Mills; or, The korl woman (SUBJECT: Women iron and steel workers United States Fiction Feminism Fiction NOTES: first published in The Atlantic Monthly, April 1861) Gutenberg FTP : UI: TXT 92 Kb - ZIP 38 Kb SL: TXT ZIP EN: TXT ZIP Margret Howth: A Story of To-Day (UVa) . Illustrations. (345 KB) TOC TXT 324 Kb - ZIP 142 Kb SL: TXT ZIP EN: TXT ZIP One Week an Editor (UVa) (50 KB) "Walhalla (UVa) May 1880 (40 KB) Return to index web hosting domain names web design ... online casino

37. Legacy Rebecca Harding Davis, 18311910. For a Profile of Rebecca Harding Davis,see LEGACY Vol. 7.2, 1990 Search for Davis in Legacy s Index. http://www.lehigh.edu/~dek7/SSAWW/photoDavis.htm

Rebecca Harding Davis, For a Profile of Rebecca Harding Davis , see LEGACY Vol. 7.2, 1990 Search for Davis in Legacy 's Index.

38. Legacy 9.2 (1992) 14350. D Deland, Margaret, 1857-1945. Diana C. Reep. 14.1 (1997) 43-50.Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910. Jean Pfaelzer. 7.2 (1990) 39-45. E. http://www.lehigh.edu/~dek7/SSAWW/legacyIndProf.htm

A B Barr, Amelia, 1831-1919. Rose Norman. 16.2 (1999): 193-200. Brown, Alice, 1857-1948. Beth Wynne Fisken. 6.2 (1989): 51-57. C Cary, Alice, 1820-1871. Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse. 1.1 (1984): 1-3. Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880. Patricia G. Holland. 5.2 (1988): 45-53. Clappe, Louise (Dame Shirley), 1819-1906. Sandra Lockhart. 8.2 (1991): 141-48. Cooke, Rose Terry, 1827-1892. Cheryl Walker. 9.2 (1992): 143-50. D Deland, Margaret, 1857-1945. Diana C. Reep. 14.1 (1997): 43-50. Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910. Jean Pfaelzer. 7.2 (1990): 39-45. E F Fern, Fanny, 1811-1872. Joyce W. Warren. 2.2 (1985): 54-58. Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958. Mark J. Madigan. 9.1 (1992): 49-58. Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins, 1852-1930. Leah Blatt Glasser. 4.1 (1987): 37-45. Foote, Mary Hallock, 1847-1938. Melody Graulich. 3.2 (1986): 43-52. G Green, Anna Katharine. 1846-1935. Patricia D. Maida. 3.2 (1986): 53-59.

39. Davis, Rebecca Harding Davis, Rebecca Harding. 18311910, American novelist, b. Washington,Pa.; mother of Richard Harding Davis. Her early nonfiction pieces http://pt.slider.com/enc/15000/Davis_Rebecca_Harding.htm

40. Rebecca Harding Davis: Selected Secondary Bibliography . Rebecca Harding Davis (18311910) A Bibliography of Secondary Criticism,1958-1986. Bulletin of Bibliography 45.4 (1988) 233-46. http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/davisrh.htm

Literary Movements Timeline American Authors English 310/510 ... Rebecca Harding Davis : Selected Secondary Bibliography Boudreau, Kristin. "'The Woman's Flesh of Me': Rebecca Harding Davis's Response to Self-Reliance." American Transcendental Quarterly Buckley, J. F. "Living in the Iron Mills: A Tempering of Nineteenth-Century America's Orphic Poet." Journal of American Culture Curnutt, Kirk. "Direct Addresses, Narrative Authority, and Gender in Rebecca Harding Davis's 'Life in the Iron Mills'." Style Dauber, Kenneth. "Realistically Speaking: Authorship in the Late Nineteenth Century and Beyond." American Literary History Davis, Rebecca Harding, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project), and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Bits of Gossip . Electronic ed. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Academic Affairs Library University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997. Davis, Rebecca Harding, Janice Milner Lasseter, and Sharon M. Harris.

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