Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Rebecca Harding Davis
Born: June 24, 1831
Died: September 29, 1910 (aged 79)
Bio: 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.
Known for:
- Life in the Iron Mills
- Waiting for the Verdict (1867)
- Margret Howth, a Story of To-day (1862)
- Frances Waldeaux (1897)