William Dean Howells, whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his...
William Dean Howells , whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his close fr...
William Dean Howells combined a career as an important novelist with that of a journalist. As editor of The Atlantic Monthly and later as author of, or contributor to, the "Editor's Study" and "Editor's Easy Chair" columns in Harper's Monthly, he was an...
Nick Malgieri is a first - eneration Italian-American who grew up in a household where only Italian was spoken and where his beloved grandmother prepared the cakes and cookies of her village. So it is little wonder that Malgieri turned to pastry-making as a...
Claire Marrone. Female Journeys: Autobiographical Expressions by French and Italian Women. Westport: Greenwood, 2000. 200 pp. ISBN 0-313-30727-X, $59.95. Female Journeys is a study of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French and Italian women's autobiographical writings. The works examined, Marrone maintains in the introduction, often...
