Rebecca Harding Davis
Writing Cultural Autobiography
This is the annotated edition of novelist/journalist Rebecca Harding Davis?'s 1904 autobiography, Bits of Gossip, and a previously unpublished family history written for her children.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 ac…
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Weitere Autoren: Harris, Sharon M. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8265-1354-0
- EAN: 9780826513540
- Produktnummer: 1140299
- Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm 503 g
- Abbildungen: 11 illustrations, index
- Gewicht: 503
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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