But, after all, we are a young nation, and vanity is a fault of youth.
Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.
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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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