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Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography

Lasseter, Janice Milner
Harris, Sharon M.

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ISBN10: 0826513840
ISBN13: 9780826513847
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: Dec 1 2001
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
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annotated edition of novelist/journalist Rebecca Harding Davisís 1904 autobiography, Bits of Gossip, and a previously unpublished family history written for her children.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 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.

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