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Rebecca Harding Davis

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From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Date: 20080415
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Rebecca Harding Davis 1831-1910, American novelist, b. Washington, Pa.; mother of Richard Harding Davis . Her early nonfiction pieces, particularly those collected under the title Life in the Iron Mills (1861), and her first novel, Margaret Howth (1862), foreshadowed the naturalistic techniques of later 19th-century writers by showing how a dismal environment can warp character.

Bibliography: See her autobiographical Bits of Gossip (1904); biography by G. Langford (1961).



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