Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, January 1st, 2002
No woman ever did better for her time than you and no shrieking suffragette will ever understand the influence you wielded, greater than hundreds of thousands of women's votes.
Letter from Richard Harding Davis to his mother (qtd. in Charles Belmont Davis, 293)
Rebecca Harding Davis was one of the most popular writers in the nineteenth century, not because of "Life in the Iron-Mills," as any contemporary student ofAmerican literature might assume, but rather because for thirty-three years she was a regular contributor to a "ladies" magazine, Peterson's. (1) Her biographers argue that this ...
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