The recovery of Rebecca Harding Davis (1831–1910) as an American author of some merit began with Tillie Olsen's Feminist Press reprint of “Life in the Iron-Mills” (1861) in 1972. Early recovery work on Davis following Olsen's includes contributions by Sharon M. Harris (Rebecca Harding Davis and American Realism [1991]), Jane Atteridge Rose (Rebecca Harding Davis [1993]), and Jean Pfaelzer (Parlor Radical: Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Reform [1996]). More recently, in 2001, Harris and Janice Milner Lasseter published Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography, an edition of Davis's memoirs (Bits of Gossip [1909]), which includes, as its book jacket proclaims, a “previously unpublished family history written for her children,” and in 2010 Harris and I edited a collection of Davis's short stories (Rebecca Harding Davis's Stories of the Civil War Era: Selected Writings from the Borderlands). Alicia Mischa Renfroe's...
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