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Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories
Second Edition
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Artikel-Nr:
9780935312393
Veröffentl:
1993
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.01.1993
Seiten:
248
Autor:
Rebecca Harding Davis
Gewicht:
249 g
Format:
176x127x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) was an American author, journalist, and a pioneer of literary realism in American literature. Her seminal work Life in the Iron Mills originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1861, gaining her immediate acclaim. Lauded as "a brave new voice" by both Louisa May Alcott and Ralph Walph Emerson, Davis held a prolific career with over 500 published works, including "Waiting for the Verdict," John Andross, and Silhouettes of American Life, and worked as an editor for the New York Tribune. Though she fell out of public knowledge by her death, Davis was reintroduced to the literary circles in the 1970s by feminist writer Tillie Olsen, re-emphasizing her heavy significance to American literature.
This 1861 classic of social realism-the first book to be reprinted by the Feminist Press in its series of rediscovered women writers-remains a powerful evocation of what Davis herself called "thwarted, wasted lives . . . mighty hungers . . . and unawakened powers." The New York Times Book Review said of the novella: "You must read this book and let your heart be broken.” With an insightful biographical essay by Tillie Olsen, and with two short stories never before anthologized, this expanded edition is the most complete volume available from this important nineteenth-century writer.