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 Biography of Rebecca (Blaine) Harding Davis
7,121 words, approx. 24 pages
 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... summary from source:
Biography of Rebecca (Blaine) Harding Davis
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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... 
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 Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes
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 Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass. These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle,...
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 Rebecca Harding Davis Information
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Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis (1831-1910; born Rebecca Blaine Harding) was an American author and journalist. She is deemed a pioneer of literary Realism in American literature. Her most important literary work is the novella Life in the Iron Mills...
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 Utopian Studies Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism.
03/22/1997: 2,016 words, approx. 7 pages Jean Pfaelzer. U of Pittsburgh P, 1996. xi + 282 pp. $29.95 (cloth) JEAN PFAELZER'S Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and The Origins of American Social Realism offers an interesting portrait of one of the most prolific nineteenth-century American women writers--Rebecca Harding... summary from source:
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Jean Pfaelzer
8,941 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following essay, Pfaelzer asserts that Davis challenges the notion that women and slaves thrive in confinement in her stories “John Lamar” and “Blind Tom”.
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Critical Essay by Jane Atteridge Rose
8,804 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, Rose asserts that Davis uses the artist manque in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Blind Tom,” and other stories to exorcise her desire to be an artist by simultaneously asserting her desire and denying it.
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