"Berrytown"

Title"Berrytown"
Year for Search1873
AuthorsDavis, Rebecca [Blaine] Harding(1831-1910)
Secondary TitleLippincott's Magazine (Philadelphia, PA)
Volume / Edition11-12
Pagination400-11; 579-87; 697-707; 35-48
Date PublishedApril - July 1873
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

Berrytown is described as a eutopia in which all contemporary reforms are being tried. The story has relatively little to do with these reforms but explores the role of women both traditionally and in the eutopia.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. as "Kitty's Choice, a Story of Berrytown." In her Kitty's Choice, a Story of Berrytown (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1874), 3-48.

Info Notes

On the author, see Jean Pfaelzer, Parlor Radical Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996, which discusses the story.

Title Note

"Kitty’s Choice, a Story of Berrytown.” In her Kitty’s Choice, a Story of Berrytown (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1874), 3-48.

Holding Institutions

Hathi, PSt, W2,698

Author Note

Female author (1831-1910).

Full Text

1873 Davis, Rebecca [Blaine] Harding (1831-1910). “Berrytown.” Lippincott’s Magazine (Philadelphia, PA) 11 - 12 (April - July 1873): 400-11; 579-87; 697-707; 35-48. Rpt. as “Kitty’s Choice, a Story of Berrytown.” In her Kitty’s Choice, a Story of Berrytown (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1874), 3-48. Hathi, PSt, W2,698

Berrytown is described as a eutopia in which all contemporary reforms are being tried. The story has relatively little to do with these reforms but explores the role of women both traditionally and in the eutopia. On the female author, see Jean Pfaelzer, Parlor Radical Rebecca Harding Davis and the Origins of American Social Realism. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996, which discusses the story.