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Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography
This is the annotated edition of novelist/journalist Rebecca Harding Davis s 1904 autobiography, "Bits of Gossip," and a previously unpublished family history written for her children.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 sometim
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Hardcover
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232 pages
Published
December 1st 2001
by Vanderbilt University Press
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If only they hadn't given it this dry as dust title. It's actually two things: a previously unpublished family history written for her children (something I'd had in my files for years, and passed on to the editors); and the annotated edition of her 1904 autobiography, Bits of Gossip, with accounts of her meetings with Hawthorne, Emerson, the Alcotts, and many others.
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