Research Catalog

Title

A Sherwood Bonner sampler, 1869-1884 : What a bright, educated, witty, lively, snappy young woman can say on a variety of topics / Katharine Sherwood Bonner McDowell ; edited by Anne Razey Gowdy.

Author

McDowell, Katherine Sherwood Bonner, 1849-1883.

Publication

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gowdy, Anne Razey.

Description

lxvii, 451 pages; 25 cm

Summary

• "The Mississippi-born author Katharine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (1849-1883) has long been recognized as one of the pioneers in dialect fiction, but she and her work faded from memory as literary tastes shifted away from this popular nineteenth-century genre. Although her career was cut short by her early death, Bonner left a significant body of published work, most of it buried in periodical archives.
• This book, which adds significantly to the current resurgence of interest in Bonner, brings back into print much of the author's best writing and will acquaint modern readers with her astute and witty observations about America's centennial era."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections. 2000

Alternative Title

Works. 2000

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-439) and index.

Contents

• A Southern Girl's Experience of Life in New England -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Interviewed by a Fair Southron -- A Personal Chapter on Sumner, Schurz, Wendell Phillips, Garrison, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Others -- The Big Celebration -- Wendell Phillips -- Boston's Centennial -- Pencillings En Route for England -- First Impressions of Life in London -- Over the Blue Waters of the Mediterranean -- Rome in Carnival Time -- An Audience with His Holiness the Pope -- Social Life in the Eternal City -- A Visit to Garibaldi -- Farewell Notes on the Sacred City -- Florence and the Florentines -- The Romance of Life in "Beautiful Venice" -- How She Is Seeing Paris -- Gossip about the Leading Theatre in the World -- Reminiscences of a Visit to Bohemia -- From '60 to '65 -- The Yellow Plague of '78 -- Mary Clemmer -- Julia Ward Howe -- Louise Chandler Moulton -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Mrs. Meriwether's Lecture at Holly Springs -- The Modjeska -- Gran'mamy's Last Gift --
• Breaking the News -- Hicronymus Pop and the Baby -- Aunt Anniky's Teeth -- Coming Home to Roost -- Terrible Adventures of Ourselves and the Marshal -- The Angel in the Lilly Family -- Tobey's Fortune -- Saved -- The Revolution in the Life of Mr. Balingall -- A Volcanic Interlude -- Christmas Eve at Tuckeyho -- Jack and the Mountain Pink -- The Case of Eliza Bleylock -- Lame Jerry -- The Bran Dance at Apple Settlement -- Sister Weeden's Prayer -- On the Nine-Mile -- At the Wool-Picking -- The Tender Conscience of Mr. Bobberts -- The Radical Club -- To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Modjeska -- With Her Picture -- Despondency -- My Legend for Valentine -- Appendix: The Radical Club.

ISBN

1572330678 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99050682

OCLC

• ocm42863301
• SCSB-3902419

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries