We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.
Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes
But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.
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| Birth: | 24th June, 1831 |
| Death: | 29th September, 1910 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Author, Journalist |
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Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis 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.
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