Original sentence: After Fields's husband died in 1881, she continued to occupy the center of Boston literary life.As Samuel Johnson's "observation with extensive view" had surveyed the eighteenth century scene, Annie Fields's sharp decisive portraits etch the nineteenth-century American literary scene.Fields's diaries remain unpublished, except for excerpts published by M.Fields's literary importance lies primarily in two areas: one is the influence she exerted over her husband in the selection of works to be published by Ticknor and Fields, the major publishing house of the time.However, she was a supporter of "women's emancipation", and her association with Jewett and others suggests a less traditional side.She and her husband were friends with many of the main literary figures of their time, including Willa Cather, Mary Ellen Chase, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alfred Tennyson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, Charles Dudley Warner and John Greenleaf Whittier.The hallmark of Fields's work is a sympathetic understanding of her friends, who happened to be the leading literary figures of her time
Edited sentence: After Fields' husband died in 1881, she continued to occupy the center of Boston literary life.As Samuel Johnson's "observation with extensive view" had surveyed the eighteenth century scene, Annie Fields' sharp decisive portraits etch the nineteenth-century American literary scene.Fields' diaries remain unpublished, except for excerpts published by M.Fields' literary importance lies primarily in two areas: one is the influence she exerted over her husband in the selection of works to be published by Ticknor and Fields, the major publishing house of the time.However, she was a supporter of "women's emancipation," and her association with Jewett and others suggests a less traditional side.The hallmark of Fields' work is a sympathetic understanding of her friends, who happened to be the leading literary figures of her time.The two were friends with many of the main literary figures of their time, including Willa Cather, Mary Ellen Chase, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alfred Tennyson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, Charles Dudley Warner and John Greenleaf Whittier