Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 197
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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 | Mary Russell Mitford | At the end of her life MRM
was visited by John Ruskin
and the US publisher James T. Fields
. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 116: 197 |
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... |
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 |
Literary responses | Rebecca Harding Davis | When it first appeared, RHD
's story met with wide critical acclaim and broad recognition from members of the American literary community. Davis, Rebecca Harding. “Biographical Introduction”. Life in the Iron Mills; or, the Korl Woman, edited by Tillie Olsen, The Feminist Press, 1972. 10 American National Biography. http://www.anb.org/articles/home.html. Olsen, Tillie. Silences. Virago, 1980. 117 |
Occupation | Anna Mary Howitt | AMH
was already writing and drawing as a professional when Henry Chorley
, editor of the Ladies' Companion, commissioned her to go to Oberammergau and report on the passion play. On her return to... |
Publishing | Sarah Orne Jewett | SOJ
published many sketches and short stories throughout her career, frequently placing them in James T. Fields
's Atlantic Monthly. |
Publishing | Mary Cowden Clarke | At the request of James T. Fields
she wrote a piece for the Atlantic Monthly in 1866 about a curious Clarke, Mary Cowden. My Long Life. Dodd, Mead, 1896. 149 |
Publishing | Rebecca Harding Davis | |
Publishing | George Eliot | She thought, after this, of writing a poem on Timoleon, the Greek liberator of Syracuse in the fourth century BC. Instead, however, she started work on Middlemarch. In 1869 she wrote and published two... |
Publishing | Elizabeth Stuart Phelps | James Fields
wrote to her shortly after publication that her book was moving grandly. . . . It has already reached a sale of four thousand copies. qtd. in Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Chapters From a Life. Houghton, Mifflin, 1897. 109 |
Reception | Rebecca Harding Davis | More recently, however, critics have expressed regret about RHD
's decision to submit to editorial control by James T. Fields
. Following Jean Fagan Yellin
, Janice Milner Lasseter
contended that the revised version of... |
Reception | Rebecca Harding Davis | Whether out of dislike for the novel, insistence on exclusive rights to her work, or anxiety not to offend his readers, RHD
's first publisher, James T. Fields
, summarily removed her from the list... |
Textual Production | Rebecca Harding Davis | While she was working on Life in the Iron-Mills, RHD
's editor James Fields
requested a more taking title. She proposed the title Beyond? (to suggest the subdued meaning of the story) and... |
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