The New Student's Reference Work/Davis, Rebecca Harding

Davis, Rebecca Harding, American magazinist and novelist, was born at Washington, Pa., June 24, 1831.  Her early life was spent in (West) Virginia, and her first notable story, which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, in 1861, dealt with Life in the Iron-Mills.  On her marriage to L. Clark Davis, editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, she removed to the east and for a time was on the editorial staff of the New York Tribune.  Her chief publications include A Law Unto Herself; Kent Hampden; and Dr. Warwick’s Daughter.  She died Sept 29, 1910.