Rebecca Harding Davis broke new ground as an American fiction writer and journalist. When her novella Life in the Iron Mills appeared in the April 1861 edition of The Atlantic Monthly, it startled readers with its depiction of the grim lives of the worki...

Rebecca Harding Davis, who came to maturity during the Civil War, wrote about the effects of that war on those who awaited its outcome at home. An astute and imaginative observer, she is noted for her skill in developing character and motivation, but she...

Ann-Margret makes her entrance. The door to the bedroom of the hotel suite swings slowly open and there she stands. Much smaller than imagined. More conservatively dressed than the frothy, sequined and fringed pastel outfits and turbans that have become her trademark. Yesterday she...

MARGRET HOWTH: A Story of To-day This first novel by the 19th-century author of Life in the Iron Mills was serialized in the Atlantic Monthly in 1861-62; set in that period in an Indiana mill town, it shows the "life-long battle for bread...