Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0826513840 ISBN 13 : 9780826513847

Editeur : Vanderbilt University Press, 2001

Synopsis

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annotated edition of novelist/journalist Rebecca Harding Davisís 1904 autobiography, Bits of Gossip, and a previously unpublished family history written for her children.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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vanderbilt University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0826513840
• ISBN 13: 9780826513847
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Éditeur: Lasseter Janice Milner, Harris Sharon M.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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