Direct addresses, narrative authority, and gender in Rebecca Harding Davis's "Life in the Iron Mills."

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When Rebecca Harding Davis died in 1910, eulogies recounted how her most famous work, "Life in the Iron Mills," published in the Atlantic Monthly nearly fifty years earlier, defied nineteenth-century assumptions about women's writing. According to the New York Times, many readers assumed that "the author must be a man" (the story was published without attribution at Davis's request): "The stern but artistic realism of the picture she put alive upon paper, suggested a man, and a man of power not unlike Zola's" (13). While the analogy is anachronistic--Zola was unknown in America ...

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