Davis, Rebecca Harding. “A Family History”. Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography, edited by Janice Milner Lasseter and Sharon M. Harris, Vanderbilt University Press, 2001, pp. 137 - 48.
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Janice Milner Lasseter
Standard Name: Lasseter, Janice Milner
Used Form: Janice Mill Lasseter
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Birth | Rebecca Harding Davis | She was the eldest of eight children, three of whom died in infancy. |
| Literary responses | Rebecca Harding Davis | Janice Milner Lasseter
considered that in these stories, which demonstrate her abhorrence of the institution of slavery,RHD
portrays black people as complex rather than one-dimensional—giving her work a marked difference from most renderings... |
| Literary responses | 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... |
| Literary responses | Rebecca Harding Davis | Recent commentators (for instance, Jean Pfaelzer
in her monograph and Janice Milner Lasseter
in her Dictionary of Literary Biography article) differ from each other in the attitudes to race which they find reflected in the... |
| Literary responses | Rebecca Harding Davis | According to Janice Milner Lasseter
, most critics agree that this is one of RHD
's weaker novels. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 239: 64 Rose, Jane Atteridge. Rebecca Harding Davis. Twayne Publishers, 1993. 82-3 |
| Literary responses | Rebecca Harding Davis | More recently, Janice Milner Lasseter
called Bits of Gossipa compelling human story of Davis's time, which is significant for understanding the nineteenth-century American milieu. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 239: 68 |
| Reception | Rebecca Harding Davis | Considering the content of both these articles, critic Janice Mill Lasseter
characterized RHD
as a conservative feminist insofar as she insisted that women need both personal fulfilment through the roles of wife and mother and... |
| Textual Features | Rebecca Harding Davis | Anne, which has been read as personally revealing, depicts a successful middle-aged businesswoman and mother who is unable to persuade her children about the reality of her essential identity. Poignant in its sense of... |
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