21. Wheeling Hall Of Fame:Rebecca Harding Davis Rebecca Harding Davis 18311910 Fine Arts. Inducted 1984. Rebecca HardingDavis was a pioneer in literary realism. In 1861, when her http://wheeling.weirton.lib.wv.us/people/hallfame/1984davi.htm

R EBECCA H ARDING D AVIS Fine Arts Inducted 1984 Rebecca Harding Davis was a pioneer in literary realism. In 1861, when her story, "Life in the Iron Mills," was published anonymously in The Atlantic Monthly, few people in Wheeling could have imagined that this novella about human tragedy had been written by their 30-year-old spinster neighbor, Rebecca Harding. Born in Washington, Pa., in 1831, she had lived in Wheeling from the age of five. Her English-born father, Richard, was an insurance executive and also city treasurer for 14 years. As a teen-ager, she attended Washington Female Seminary, where she was graduated valedictorian in 1848. There was nothing in her upbringing to suggest she would be able to picture so vividly the grim life of immigrant industrial workers and their harsh working conditions. However, she was obviously influence by the change in Wheeling from an idyllic Virginia village to a smoke-filled milltown. The Civil War created an even more dramatic change in Wheeling and in subsequent work, no longer anonymous, she told of the "general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life." She described the savagery of war and her talent drew the admiration of the New England writers Emerson, Holmes, Alcott and her favorite, Nathaniel Hawthorne all of whom she met while traveling with her brother to Boston. She also caught the attention of Philadelphia lawyer L. Clarke Davis. They struck up a correspondence, soon met and were engaged. They were married in St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Wheeling during a March snowstorm in '63 and took up residence in Philadelphia.

22. Rebecca Harding Davis cover of her book.MG. Rebecca Harding Davis 1831-1910, Gonzaga UniversityA great site created by D. Cambell. There are links to http://library.marist.edu/diglib/english/americanliterature/19thc-american-autho

Rebecca Harding Davis Rebecca Harding Davis 24 June 1831 - 29 September 1910 : We are given a long introduction on Davis as well as her work "Life in the Iron Mills. The main page also gives us quotes by Davis on her beliefs on racial issues, women and the working class.-MG Encyclopedia of the Self: Frances Waldeaux by Rebecca Harding Davis : Mark Zimmerman's online version of "Frances Waldeaux" and "Life in the Iron Mills," by Davis. The links in the texts only lead to definitions of the word, unforunately the words chosen should already be in the readers vocabulary.-MG Rebecca Harding Davis (24 June 1831 - 29 September 1910) A Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources : An enormous list of works compiled by Janice Lasseter on Rebecca Harding Davis. It includes her books, her fiction and non-fiction periodical listings, bibliographies, biographies, critical essays and references, as well as unpublished dissertations. NB, it is only a list of these works.-MG Biography of Rebecca Harding Davis : A simple biography of Davis' life. This is the "scribblingwomen" website.-MG General William Wirt Colby By Rebecca Harding Davis : A copy of Davis' short story "from Wood's Household Magazine, vol. xii, no. 1, January, 1873, p. 12-19."-MG

23. Fiction: Rebecca Harding Davis Back to List Rebecca Harding Davis (18311910) LINKS Perspectives in American LiteratureLate Nineteenth-Century Realism and Rebecca Harding Davis http//www http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/fiction/davis.htm

MM_preloadImages('../images/m_research_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_related_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_literary_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_critical_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_essays_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_poetry_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_drama_o.gif'); MM_preloadImages('../images/m_fiction_o.gif'); Rebecca Harding Davis LINKS Perspectives in American Literature: Late Nineteenth-Century Realism and Rebecca Harding Davis http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap5/davis.html BIOGRAPHY Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) was born Rebecca Blaine Harding in Washington, Pennsylvania. Around 1836 the Harding family moved to the industrial city of Wheeling, West Virginia, where Davis's father became a successful businessman. Davis graduated from Washington Female Seminary in Pennsylvania as class valedictorian in 1848 and then returned to the family home in Wheeling, where she remained for the next twelve years. In the late 1850s, Davis began publishing reviews and stories in a local newspaper. In December 1860, the unknown author sent the manuscript of her novella

24. Project Gutenberg Author Record Project Gutenberg Author record. Davis, Rebecca Harding, 18311910. Titles. http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/authors/davis__rebecca_harding__1.html

Project Gutenberg Author record Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910 Titles Frances Waldeaux Life In The Iron-Mills; or, The Korl Woman Margret Howth, A Story of To-day To the main listings page Main Project Gutenberg Web page (online)

25. Project Gutenberg Author Index Davis, Jefferson, 18081889. Davis, John Francis,1859-1930. Davis, Rebecca Harding,1831-1910. Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916. Davis, William Stearns, 1877-1930. http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/authors/author_index_D.html

Project Gutenberg Author Index "D" Dana, Marvin, 1867- Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882 Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 Danton, Georges Jacques, 1759-1794 ... Dyer, Frank Lewis, 1870-1941 To the main listings page Main Project Gutenberg Web page (online)

26. Rebecca Harding Davis here's what one reviewer said about Rebecca Harding Davis Writing Cultural AutobiographyRebecca Harding Davis (18311910) was a fiction writer and journalist http://www.abacci.com/books/authorDetails.asp?authorID=332

27. Davis, Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis, Rebecca Blaine Harding. (18311910), essayist and writer RebeccaHarding was born on June 24, 1831, in Washington, Pennsylvania. http://search.eb.com/women/articles/Davis_Rebecca_Blaine_Harding.html

Davis, Rebecca Blaine Harding (1831-1910), essayist and writer Rebecca Harding was born on June 24, 1831, in Washington, Pennsylvania. She graduated from the Washington (Pennsylvania) Female Seminary in 1848. An avid reader, she had begun dabbling in the writing of verse and stories in her youth. Some of her early pieces were published, but her reputation as an author of startlingly realistic, sometimes grim, portraits of life began only with the publication of her story "Life in the Iron Mills" in the Atlantic Monthly in April 1861. From 1861 to 1862 the Atlantic serialized a story that appeared in book form in the latter year as Margaret Howth. In March 1863 Harding married L. Clarke Davis of Philadelphia, later an editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Public Ledger. Over the next three decades Rebecca Davis' fiction, children's stories, essays, and articles appeared regularly in most of the leading magazines of the day, and from 1869 she was for several years also a contributing editor of the New York Tribune.

28. Work And Society -- Rebecca Harding Davis Bibliography As Davis continued publishing her stories she became a writer whose viewsbecame nationally acclaimed. Rebecca Harding Davis, 18311910. http://bizntech.rutgers.edu/worknlit/davis_bib.html

Return Home Course Texts Requirements Syllabus ... How to Use the Forum Rebecca Harding Davis By Jo Glenn Online Resources Rebecca Harding Davis was born on June 24, 1831 in Washington, Pennsylvania. Educated at home until the age of fourteen, she then attended Washington Female Seminary. After graduation Davis returned home where she honed her writing skills. Davis was one of the pioneers of the writing style that came to be known as American realism. This style of writing contained profound social commentary about the many of the issues facing society. As Davis continued publishing her stories she became a writer whose views became nationally acclaimed. Rebecca Harding Davis, 1831-1910 The first of Davis's works to be published was "Life on the Iron-Mills" (

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31. Untitled Introduction to Rebecca Harding Davis 18311910 Rebecca Harding Davisis a pioneer of realist fiction in American literature and http://www.samford.edu/schools/artsci/english/lasseter/introrhd.htm

Introduction to Rebecca Harding Davis Rebecca Harding Davis is a pioneer of realist fiction in American literature and a journalist whose social commentary was nationally acclaimed. Her work was forgotten soon after her death, but the 1972 reprinting of her ground-breaking novella Life in the Iron Mills began a recovery of her as an important American writer. The story, which was first published in the April 1861 edition of the Atlantic Monthly , launched a fifty-year career which would produce a corpus of 500 published works. Born June 24, 1831 in Washington, Pennsylvania to Rachel Leet Wilson and Richard W. Harding, Davis spent her first five years in Florence, Alabama. Her mother was raised in the home of a prominent family in Washington, Pennsylvania; her father was an English immigrant. Her parents, younger brother Wilson and Rebecca moved north to settled in Wheeling, Virginia (not yet West) in 1837. Nurtured by her mother's erudition and facility with language as well as her father's storytelling, Rebecca had the kind of secure childhood likely to nourish a child's love for story and writing. Reading was her favorite past-time. She often climbed into the backyard tree-house with Bunyan, Maria Edgeworth or Sir Walter Scott in tow. Most influential was her reading of Nathaniel Hawthorne, to whom she attributes the commonplace subject matter of her own writing. Schooled at home until she was fourteen by her mother and various tutors, Davis entered Washington Female Seminary in 1845. After graduating in 1848 (as valedictorian and with honors), the young woman returned home to help her mother manage a bustling household of seven. During the twelve years between graduation and the publication of her first work of fiction, she began honing her writing skills by writing for the Wheeling

32. Rebecca Harding Davis Nineteenthcentury fiction writer and journalist Rebecca Harding Davis(1831-1910) is best known for her novella Life in the Iron Mills. http://www.vanderbilt.edu/vupress/lasseter.html

Rebecca Harding Davis Writing Cultural Autobiography Edited by Janice Milner Lasseter and Sharon M. Harris Nineteenth-century fiction writer and journalist Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) is best known for her novella Life in the Iron Mills. Its publication in 1861 launched her stunning fifty-year career that yielded a corpus of some 500 published works, including short stories, novels, novellas, sketches, and social commentary. Davis's unique mode of writing anticipated literary realism twenty years before the time usually associated with its genesis. Today, her life and work continue to figure prominently in the study of American literature and culture. Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography is the annotated edition of her 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 remarkableand sometimes scandalouspeople 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 activists of the Civil War era, from Abraham Lincoln to Booker T. Washington, from the "daughters of the Southland" to Lucretia Mott, from Henry Ward Beecher to William Still. Whereas Bits of Gossip

33. Davis, Rebecca Harding Davis, Rebecca Harding. 18311910, American novelist, b. Washington,Pa.; mother of Richard Harding Davis. Her early nonfiction pieces http://www.slider.com/enc/15000/Davis_Rebecca_Harding.htm

Home Encyclopeadia D Dan - Dav ... Rope Ladders Slider Search: The Web Encyclopaedia Shopping Index Help Encyclopaedia 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. See her autobiographical Bits of Gossip (1904); biography by Gerald Langford (1961). Add URL Advertise Contact Us

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37. Rebecca Harding Davis, "Out Of The Sea," Part I return to Index. Out of the Sea. by Rebecca Harding Davis (18311910).Text from Atlantic Monthly, 15 (May 1865), 533-550. A raw, gusty http://www.pittstate.edu/engl/nichols/davis.html

Women's Short Fictions: A Nineteenth-Century Online Anthology return to Index Out of the Sea by Rebecca Harding Davis Text from Atlantic Monthly , 15 (May 1865), 533-550. “Yonder go the shades of Ossian’s heroes,” said Mary Defourchet to her companion, pointing through the darkening air. They were driving carefully in an old-fashioned gig, in one of the lulls of the storm, along the edge of a pine wood, early in the afternoon. The old Doctor, — for it was MacAulay, (Dennis,) from over in Monmouth County, she was with, — the old man did not answer, having enough to do to guide his mare, the sleet drove so in his eyes. Besides, he was gruffer than usual this afternoon, looking with the trained eyes of an old water-dog out to the yellow line of the sea to the north. Miss Defourchet pulled the oil-skin cloth closer about her knees, and held her tongue; she relished the excitement of this fierce fighting the wind, though; it suited the nervous tension which her mind had undergone lately. It was a queer, lonesome country, this lee coast, — never so solitary as now, perhaps; older than the rest of the world, she fancied, — so many of Nature’s voices, both of bird and vegetable, had been entirely lost out of it: no wonder it had grown unfruitful, and older and dumber and sad, listening for ages to the unremorseful, cruel cries of the sea; these dead bodies, too, washed up every year on its beaches, must haunt it, though it was not guilty. She began to say something of this to Doctor Dennis, tired of being silent.

38. FpnasAuthors01 Curry, JLM (Jabez Lamar Monroe), 18251903. Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910.Dawson, Sarah Morgan, 1842-1909. De Saussure, NB (Nancy Bostick), 1837-1915. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/ncuhtml/fpnasAuthors01.html

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40. Rebecca Harding Davis DH Ramsey Library. Rebecca Harding Davis 18311910. Born in PennsylvaniaRebecca Harding Davis grew up in the mill town of Big Spring http://dd1.library.appstate.edu/Women/hardingdavis1.htm

D.H. Ramsey Library Rebecca Harding Davis Born in Pennsylvania Rebecca Harding Davis grew up in the mill town of Big Spring, Alabama where her observations of the changes brought about by industrialization had a life-long influence on the themes of her writing. She saw the conditions of women, particularly working women, as a "...tragedy more real ... than any other in life." Illustration for "By-paths in the Mountains," by Davis In her many articles for Atlantic Monthly, for Appletons, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, The Century, Lippencott's and Scribner's, and other journals and magazines, she sought to expose inequities through the real and the commonplace. Her fiction often characterized as radical by her readers, moved from addressing the abuse of workers by industrial capitalists, to prostitution, to slavery. In her desire to expose life's inequities she pulled from incidences of "accurate history" ... closely observed human interactions and non-glorified depictions of daily life sometimes startling in their brutal opinion. She was not necessarily a sympathetic observer. She frequently pointed out life and geography that was "peculiar" and exotic to her and by doing so, distanced herself from the experience and revealed her romantic heritage. She often traveled to western North Carolina and her serialized article about the region, "By-Paths in the Mountains," for

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