Janice Milner Lasseter

Standard Name: Lasseter, Janice Milner
Used Form: Janice Mill Lasseter

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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...
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...
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.
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Rose, Jane Atteridge. Rebecca Harding Davis. Twayne Publishers.
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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.
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Birth Rebecca Harding Davis
She was the eldest of eight children, three of whom died in infancy.
Davis, Rebecca Harding. “A Family History”. Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography, edited by Janice Milner Lasseter and Sharon M. Harris, Vanderbilt University Press, pp. 137-48.
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Her mother left her marital home in Big Spring (now Florence), Alabama, to give birth at her own childhood home...

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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.
Davis, Rebecca Harding. “Bits of Gossip”. Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography, edited by Janice Milner Lasseter and Sharon M. Harris, Vanderbilt University Press, 2001, pp. 21-134.
Lasseter, Janice Milner, and Sharon M. Harris, editors. “Introduction”. Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography, Vanderbilt University Press, 2001, pp. 1-19.