Rebecca Harding Davis
Writing Cultural Autobiography
This is the annotated edition of novelist/journalist Rebecca Harding Davisís 1904 autobiography, Bits of Gossip, and a previously unpublished family history written for her children. The memoirs are not traditional autobiography; rather, they are Davis's perspective on the extraordinary cultural changes that occurred during her lifetime and of the remarkable--and sometimes scandalous--people who shaped the events. She provides intimate portraits of the famous people she knew, including Emerson, Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Ann Stephens, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Horace Greeley. Equally important are Davis's commentaries on the political act…
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Weitere Autoren: Harris, Sharon M. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8265-9129-6
- EAN: 9780826591296
- Produktnummer: 34880874
- Verlag: University of California Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 232 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'372 KB
Über den Autor
A nineteenth-century specialist, Janice Milner Lasseter is professor of English at Samford University and has published widely on Rebecca Harding Davis, including Hawthorne's Legacy to Rebecca Harding Davis in Hawthorne and Women. Sharon M. Harris is the Lorraine Sherley Professor in Literature at Texas Christian University. She is the author of Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism, co-editor of Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, and president of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
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