Utopian Studies, March 22nd, 1997
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 Davis (1830-1910). As Pfaelzer points out, Davis, whose career spanned from 1861 to 1910, published "over 275 stories, 12 novels (most published serially), 125 juvenile stories, over 200 essays that can be identified as hers, and perhaps an equal number of unsigned essays" (1-2). In her portrayal of Davis, Pfaelz...
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