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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 14-24 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	Oktober 2001
Genre:	Sprache
ISBN:	9780826513540
EAN-Code:	9780826513540
Verlag:	Vanderbilt University Press
Einband:	Gebunden
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 235 mm / B 157 mm / D 21 mm
Gewicht:	333 gr
Seiten:	224
Illustration:	11 illustrations, index
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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edition of novelist/journalist Rebecca Harding Davis?'s 1904 autobiography, "Bits of Gossip," and a previously unpublished family history written for her children.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 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.