biography
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Davis, Rebecca Harding
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née Rebecca Blaine Harding
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1831–1910)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Washington, Pennsylvania, USA. The mother of Richard Harding Davis, she was largely self-educated, and first attracted attention with ‘Life in the Iron-Mills’, published in Atlantic Monthly (1861), and with her realistic Civil War stories. Her novels portraying the bleak lives of factory workers, including Margaret Howth (1862), and African-Americans, such as Waiting for the Verdict (1868), gained her the reputation as a pioneer of American naturalism. After 1863 she lived in Philadelphia, the setting of much of her later work. |
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