page_title: Rebecca Harding Davis
section_title: Selected works
hierarchical_section_title: Rebecca Harding Davis / Selected works
caption_attribution_description: English: First edition cover
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: Books 
  Margret Howth (1861)
  Waiting for the Verdict (1867)
  Kitty's Choice or Berrytown and Other Stories (1873)
  John Andross (1874)
  A Law unto Herself (1878)
  Natasqua (1886)
  Kent Hampden (1892)
  Silhouettes of American Life (1892)
  Doctor Warrick's Daughters (1896)
  Frances Waldeaux (1897)
  Bits of Gossip (1904)
  Short fiction 
  Life in the Iron Mills, The Atlantic Monthly (1861)
  David Gaunt (1862)
  John Lamar (1862)
  Paul Blecker (1863)
  The Wife's Story (1864), The Atlantic Monthly (July 1864)
  Ellen (1865)
  The Harmonists (1866)
  In the Market (1868)
  A Pearl of Great Price (1868)
  Put out of the Way (1870)
  General William Wirt Colby,  Wood's Household Magazine (1873)
  Earthen Pitchers (1873–1874)
  Marcia (1876)
  A Day with Doctor Sarah (1878)
  Essays
  Men's Rights (1869)
  Some Testimony in the Case (1885)
  Here and There in the South (1887)
  Women in Literature (1891)
  In the Gray Cabins of New England (1895)
  The Disease of Money-Getting (1902)
caption: First edition cover of Doctor Warrick's Daughters, 1896.
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