Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes


... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.


Citations

Davis, Rebecca Harding. Bits of Gossip. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1904, p. 35.

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Rebecca Harding Davis
Rebecca Harding Davis
  • Born: June 24, 1831
  • Died: September 29, 1910
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Author

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.