[Gutenberg 515] • Margret Howth: A Story of To-day

Margret Howth: A Story of To-day. Life in the Iron-Mills or, The Korl Woman. Frances Waldeaux. Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis was an American author and journalist. She is deemed a pioneer of literary realism in American literature. She graduated valedictorian from Washington Female Seminary in Pennsylvania. hroughout her lifetime, Davis sought to effect social change for blacks, women, Native Americans, immigrants, and the working class, by intentionally writing about the plight of these marginalized groups in the 19th century.