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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...
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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 rea...
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Critical Review by The Nation
“‘Silhouettes of American Life’ by Rebecca Harding Davis,” in The Nation, Vol. 55, No. 1423, Oct. 6, 1892, p. 262.
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In the following essay, Austin details Davis's merits and shortcomings as an author, concluding that she succumbed to the mandates of the literary culture of her time.
Pioneer realist and socio...
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In the following essay, Pfaelzer explores the autobiographical aspects of “Marcia”.
In “Marcia” (1876) Rebecca Harding Davis tells of sentiment and silence, of publishers, ...
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In the following essay, Harris maintains that “In the Market” is one of Davis's most feminist texts.
In the 1860s, most of Rebecca Harding Davis's fiction focused upon the ...
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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...
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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”.
In July o...
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Rebecca (Blaine) Harding Davis
Critical Review by The Nation
