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Rebecca Harding Davis

Born

in Washington, Pennsylvania, The United States

June 24, 1831

Died

September 29, 1910

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis (born Rebecca Blaine Harding) was an American author and journalist. She is deemed a pioneer of literary realism in American literature. She graduated valedictorian from Washington Female Seminary in Pennsylvania. Her most important literary work is the novella Life in the Iron Mills, published in the April 1861 edition of the Atlantic Monthly which quickly made her an established female writer. Throughout her lifetime, Davis sought to effect social change for blacks, women, Native Americans, immigrants, and the working class, by intentionally writing about the plight of these marginalized groups in the 19th century.

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Average rating: 3.48 · 2,743 ratings · 240 reviews · 170 distinct works • Similar authors

	Life in the Iron Mills 3.43 avg rating — 1,403 ratings — published 1861 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life in the Iron Mills 3.46 avg rating — 563 ratings — 140 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories by Rebecca Harding Davis, Tillie Olsen (Editor) 3.46 avg rating — 309 ratings — published 1861 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Margret Howth by Rebecca Harding Davis, Jean Fagan Yellin (Afterword) 3.64 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1862 — 88 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waiting for the Verdict 3.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1867 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bits Of Gossip 3.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1904 — 63 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Law Unto Herself by Rebecca Harding Davis, Alicia Mischa Renfroe (Editor) 3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2008 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rebecca Harding Davis's Stories of the Civil War Era: Selected Writings from the Borderlands by Rebecca Harding Davis, Sharon M. Harris (Editor), Robin L. Cadwallader (Editor) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Balacchi Brothers 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1872	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marcia 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1876	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Well, what was it to be a thief? He met the question at last, face to face, wiping the clammy drops of sweat from his forehead. God made this money - the fresh air, too - for his children's use. He never made the difference between poor and rich.”
― Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories

tags: money, rich-and-poor, robin-hood, thievery

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“The note is the same, I fancy, be the octave high or low.”
― Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories

tags: perspective, perspective-on-life

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“Be just,—not like man's law, which seizes on one isolated fact, but like God's judging angel, whose clear, sad eye saw all the countless cankering days of this man's life.”
― Rebecca Harding Davis, Life in the Iron Mills

tags: judgement, justice, law

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