Rebecca Harding Davis
Novelist, Author
1831 – 1910
Who was Rebecca Harding Davis?
Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis was an American author and journalist. She is deemed a pioneer of literary realism in American literature. She graduated valedictorian from Washington Female Seminary in Pennsylvania. Her most important literary work is the novella Life in the Iron Mills, published in the April 1861 edition of the Atlantic Monthly which quickly made her an established female writer. Throughout her lifetime, Davis sought to effect social change for blacks, women, Native Americans, immigrants, and the working class, by intentionally writing about the plight of these marginalized groups in the 19th century.
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- Born
- Jun 24, 1831
Washington - Also known as
- Rebecca Davis
- Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Washington Female Seminary
- Died
- Sep 29, 1910
Mount Kisco
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on July 23, 2013
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