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Davis, Rebecca Harding - 1831–1910, American novelist, b. Washington, Pa.; mother of Richard Harding Davis. Her early nonfiction pieces, particularly those collected under the title Life in the Iron Mills (1861), and her first novel, Margaret Howth (1862), foreshadowed the naturalistic techniques of later 19th-century writers by showing how a dismal environment can warp character.

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    Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature (Chap. Four "Benevolent Maternalism and the Disabled Women in Stowe, Davis, and Phelps") » Read Now

    by Rosemarie Garland Thomson. 200 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Inaugurates a new field of disability studies by framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one, revising oppressive narratives and revealing liberatory ones. The book examines disabled figures in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the...
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    The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872 ("Northern Borders: Introducing Southworth, Harper, and Davis" begins on p. 37, "Jacobs and Davis: The Web of Racial and Wage Slavery" begins on p. 66, and "Class Is Another War: Fern, Townsend, and Davis" begins on p. 133) » Read Now

    by Lyde Cullen Sizer. 348 pgs.

    This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction...
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    A Message to Be Given: The Spiritual Activism of Rebecca Harding Davis, in NWSA Journal » Read Now

    by Michele L. Mock. 24 pgs.

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    ...he Spiritual Activism of Rebecca Harding Davis MICHELE L. MOCK A Faded...her knowledge of it. -- Rebecca Harding Davis (1873-1874) 1 In her essay, "Women in Literature,"...
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    Slaveries "In the Borders": Rebecca Harding Davis's "Life in the Iron Mills" in Its Southern Context, in The Mississippi Quarterly » Read Now

    by Dawn Henwood. 27 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...of more than one kind. (1)Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills, ed...her abolitionist beliefs" (Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism Philadelphia...abolition...
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    Separate Spheres No More: Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930 ("Embedded in the City, Embedded in the Text: Rebecca Harding Davis's Private-Public 'I'" begins on p. 99) » Read Now

    by Monika M. Elbert. 310 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both...
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    Hawthorne and Women: Engendering and Expanding the Hawthorne Tradition ("Hawthorne's Legacy to Rebecca Harding Davis" begins on p. 168) » Read Now

    by John L. Idol Jr., Melinda M. Ponder. 324 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    A collection of essays offering a complex yet positive view of Hawthorne's attitudes toward women, this text examines the influence exerted by the women in Hawthorne's immediate family, and explores his links to a range of women writers.
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    The Environmental Debate: A Documentary History (Document 41 "Rebecca Harding Davis on Smoke and Soot in a Mill Town") » Read Now

    by Peninah Neimark, Peter Rhoades Mott. 323 pgs.

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    This unique collection of primary documents examines the evolution of concern about environmental degradation, pollution, and resource conservation in America from the colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. These documents, ranging from government reports and court cases to the...
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    American Naturalistic and Realistic Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary ("Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)" begins on p. 93) » Read Now

    by E. C. Applegate. 426 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This reference includes alphabetically arranged biographical and critical entries for more than 120 American Realistic and Naturalistic novelists, including Henry Adams, Sherwood Anderson, Saul Bellow, Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and Jack London. Each entry includes basic biographical...
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    Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)" begins on p. 88) » Read Now

    by Denise D. Knight, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 540 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    As the American literary canon has undergone revision and expansion in recent years, the influence of women writers of the nineteenth century has been reevaluated. The first book of its kind, this reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 nineteenth-century American women...
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    The Gay Nineties in America: A Cultural Dictionary of the 1890s ("Davis, Rebecca Harding (1831-1910)" begins on p. 92) » Read Now

    by Robert L. Gale. 462 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    Whether for browsing or research, readers will reap rewards from this entertaining and enlightening compendium of the persons, events, institutions, and ideas of the era. Gale focuses on writers and their works, but also represented in the 500 entries are painters and politicians, social workers and...

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