Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes
War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.
Davis, Rebecca Harding. Bits of Gossip. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904, p. 113.
Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis was an American author and journalist. She was a pioneer of literary realism in American literature. She graduated valedictorian from Washington Female Seminary in Pennsylvania. Her most important literary work is the short story "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 African Americans, women, Native Americans, immigrants, and the working class, by intentionally writing about the plight of these marginalized groups in the 19th century.
