The Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis: Reading and Writing

MLPL is excited to welcome Dr. Kirsten Paine for a 2-part program on the work of one of our regional writers of industrial and working class fiction, Rebecca Harding Davis.

This installment of the program is going to be a discussion of Rebecca Harding Davis' Life in the Iron Mills (copies available at the library) and some of her other writings.

Presenter bio: Dr. Kirsten Paine is the Museum Education & Historic Interpretation Manager at Rivers of Steel.  In addition to public history work related to 19th-century industrial labor, she specializes in 19th-century American women writers.  She earned her PhD in English from the University of Pittsburgh in 2019 where she wrote her dissertation, "Not According to the Regulation of War": Intimate Civil War Writing by Female Nurses, Soldiers, and Spies, which she is currently revising into a book.