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Cultural formation | Rebecca Harding Davis | RHD
never spoke of this illness after recovering. The breakdown may have had a spiritual dimension. She told Annie Fields
that while she felt herself to be in the valley of the shadow of death,... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | A vocal advocate of the single life in her novels and essays, she had long admired the kind of equal marriages enjoyed by Annie Fields
and George Eliot
. For her, Eliot's art was invigorated... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Orne Jewett | Following the death of her publisher James T. Fields
in 1881, SOJ
became increasingly close to Annie Fields
, his widow. Their relationship intensified following a trip together to Europe in 1882, and they were... |
Friends, Associates | Harriet Beecher Stowe | In 1884 HBS
was visited by Sarah Orne Jewett
and Annie Fields
; they brought as a gift a copy of Jewett's novel The Country Doctor. Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994. 394 |
Friends, Associates | May Sinclair | On her visit to the USA, MS
became a warm friend of Annie Fields
and Sarah Orne Jewett
. Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press, 2000. 97 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | Well known and much admired in her lifetime, ESP
enjoyed friendships with many important literary figures, including publisher James Fields
(who has been described as Christ-like in sympathy and kindness) Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Chapters From a Life. Houghton, Mifflin, 1897. 145 |
Friends, Associates | Sarah Orne Jewett | SOJ
had a broad social circle. She belonged to an artistic community of women that included Celia Thaxter
and Louise Guiney
, and counted Harriet Beecher Stowe
(whose funeral she and Annie Fields
attended in... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Leonowens | In 1872 AL
met John Paine
, a wealthy older man with an interest in literature and a fan of her writing. Through Paine she was introduced to the elite of the New York arts... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Cowden Clarke | Their visitors at Nice included the Chaucerian Francis Child
, the American writer Mrs. John (Elizabeth) Farrar
, and the political activist Richard Cobden
. Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896. 147-8 |
Friends, Associates | Rebecca Harding Davis | She established a friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne
through an early, enthusiastic letter, in which she described the delight of her first encounters with his work. She nevertheless felt that he always stood somewhat aloof from... |
Health | Rebecca Harding Davis | By fall of 1863 she was feeling unwell, and her first pregnancy was accompanied by illness diagnosed as nervous exhaustion. She reported to her dear friend Annie Adams Fields
that her physician (probably S. Weir Mitchell |
Publishing | Rebecca Harding Davis | RHD
had originally submitted the story to the Atlantic Monthly in May 1861, on encouragement from the editor, James T. Fields
, and his wife, Annie
. Fields, however, rejected the first version of the... |
Travel | Sarah Orne Jewett | SOJ
and Annie Fields
travelled extensively during the course of their years together. Their trips included visits to Europe, Florida, and the Caribbean. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 221 |
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