REBECCA HARDING DAVIS AND LAW
Alicia Mischa RenfroeMiddle Tennessee State University
Throughout her career, Rebecca Harding Davis engaged contemporary legal issues and concepts. In “Life in the Iron-Mills,” a theft invites consideration of both the…
REBECCA HARDING DAVIS AND MEDICINE
Sharon M. Harris
In 1848 when Rebecca Harding attended the Washington (PA) Female Seminary, she came under the notice of one of its most famous Trustees, the abolitionist and physician Dr. F. Julius Le Moyne.…
REBECCA HARDING DAVIS AND MEDIA
Arielle ZibrakUniversity of Wyoming at Casper
Davis was the most well-known member of a prominent media family. Her husband, Clarke, was a working journalist who, at different times, edited The Legal Intelligencer, The…
REBECCA HARDING DAVIS AND CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Robin CadwalladerSt. Francis University
One of Rebecca Harding Davis’s earliest recollections (detailed in Bits of Gossip) is of her father telling his children the fantastic story of Monsieur Jean…
"Asylums for the Insane." New-York Tribune, 28 Nov. 1868, p. 4.
Within the current year, several cases have occurred which have directed the attention of thinking men to the mysterious places of confinement known as Asylums for the Insane. Prominent…
"At Our Gates." Independent, 11 April 1889, p. 3.
THE readers of The Independent have no doubt seen in the daily papers the story of a workingman named Sillars, an industrious, sober fellow, with a wife and child dependant on him, who, losing his…
"At the Races." Youth's Companion, 26 Nov. 1874, p. 393.
“John!”
“I hear you, mother.”
“John, I—I wish to speak seriously to you, my son.”
“Very well. I’m listening.”
Little Mrs. Thurlow stood up, to give her words more weight. They did not seem to…
"Balacchi Brothers"
“THERE’S a man, now, that has been famous in his time,” said Davidge as we passed the mill, glancing in at the sunny gap in the side of the building.
I paused incredulously: Phil’s lion so often turned out to be Snug the joiner.…
The Blot on the Great Man's Name
Now it is our friend—the country’s friend—Edward Everett Hale[1] who has robbed us of a popular belief: Daniel Webster[2]was not a drunkard! In the twenty-six years in which Mr. Hale “knew him intimately he saw him…
To ANNIE ADAMS FIELDS[1]May 20, [1861], Wheeling, Virginia
Mrs. Fields
Although your letter requires no reply, forgive me if I acknowledge it. Words so courteous and womanly could not fail to meet the cordiallist of measures, even if their tenor were…
