E. D. E. N. Southworth

Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (born 26 December 1819 in Washington, DC as Emma Nevitte, † June 30, 1899 ibid ) was an American writer. She was probably the most widely read American writer of the second half of the 19th century. The literary criticism translated at their most melodramatic novels of fiction.

Life

Emma Nevitte was born in 1819. After the wish of her dying father, she was baptized in 1824 in the name of Emma Dorothy Eliza, so that their initials EDEN (Eden ) showed. Under this acronym she also published her numerous novels. Your widowed mother married in 1826 John Henshaw, the private secretary of the politician Daniel Webster. She spent her childhood in the countryside around the capital, Washington, mostly with her grandmother in Maryland, where they later settled many of their stories.

1840 she married the windy "inventor" Frederick Hamilton Southworth and moved with him to Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, a small town on the western development boundary over where she worked first at the rural school as a teacher. From this marriage two children were born. 1844 continued her husband to South America and had them with their children in the lurch. The marriage was never divorced, but found themselves the two apparently never again; had become rich only when his wife with her ​​novels, he tried again to contact her and repeatedly demanded money from their publishers, but in vain.

EDEN Southworth brought her family first again with their income as a teacher through. 1845 began her literary career with the imprint of her first short story The Irish Refugee. My first novel, published in 1849 Retribution became a bestseller, and her continued success secured her in the next few years a homelike income. She earned a villa near Washington and gathered there in the next few years, the literati of the city around. In 1876 she settled in the meantime in Yonkers, New York down, but soon returned to her estate in Washington, where she died in 1899.

Work

The exact number of South Worths works is difficult to determine, the figures vary between 40 and 60 novels. All of her works appeared first as serials in weekly or monthly magazines and were only later - published in book form - often under different titles. Her first novels were published in the National Era and the Saturday Evening Post. 1856, she graduated from an exclusive contract with the weekly magazine New York Ledger, which reached a circulation of approximately 400,000 booklets at this time. Into old age, so she wrote an average of about two novels a year. 1877 published a first edition of works that already comprised 42 volumes.

South Worth's works were read primarily by a female audience and are for a term of conventional values ​​conceptions of their time - the joys of family life and marriage she attaches great importance. For another, many of their sentimental plots is also escapist fantasies in which young women are put through the rigors of fate on their own and have to cope with life on their own, until the happy end sets in the form of fulfilled love or a well-deserved windfall. This aspect of her work has meant that literary critics believe to recognize especially proto- feminist in recent statements in their works. As a result of the ongoing revision of the canon and the increasingly cultural studies orientation of the Americanist literature the popular literature in general and female authors is reinforced derselbigen moved in particular the interest of researchers since the 1970s. In addition to the works of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Louisa May Alcott, Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World and Fanny Fern, Ruth Hall in 1854 today is often South Worth's best-known novel, The Hidden Hand in seminar schedules and anthologies of American literary history has been recorded.

Works

  • Retribution; or The Vale of Shadows: A Tale of Passion ( 1849)
  • The Deserted Wife ( 1850)
  • The Mother -in-Law; or The Isle of Rays ( 1851)
  • Shannondale ( 1851)
  • Virginia and Magdalene; or The Foster Sisters ( 1852)
  • The Discarded Daughter; or the Children of the Ilse: A Tale of the Chesapeake (1852 )
  • The Curse of Clifton (1852 )
  • Old Neighborhoods and New Settlements; or Christmas Evening Legends ( 1853)
  • The Missing Bride; or, Miriam the Avenger (1855 )
  • The Widow 's Son ( 1857)
  • India: The Pearl of Pearl River ( 1856)
  • Viva; or The Secret of Power ( 1857)
  • The Lady of the Isle; or, The Iceland Princess ( 1859)
  • The Haunted Homestead and Other Nouvel Lettes (1860 )
  • The Gipsy 's Prophecy: A Tale of Real Life (1861 )
  • Hickory Hall; or The Outcast: A Romance of the Blue Ridge ( 1861)
  • The Broken commitment; or, Speaking TheTruth for a Day (1862 )
  • Love's Labor Won ( 1862)
  • The Fatal Marriage ( 1863)
  • The Bridal Eve (1864 )
  • Allworth Abbey ( 1865)
  • The Bride of Llewellyn (1866 )
  • The Fortune Seeker; or, The Bridal Day ( 1866)
  • The Coral Lady; or The Bronzed Beauty of Paris ( 1867)
  • Fair Play; or The Test of Lone Isle ( 1868)
  • How He Won Her: A Sequel to Fair Play (1969 )
  • The Changed Brides (1869 )
  • The Brides Fate: A Sequel to "The Changed Brides " (1869 )
  • The Family Doom; or The Sin of a Countess (1869 )
  • The Maiden Widow: A Sequel to the "Family Doom" (1870 )
  • Cruel as the Grave (1871 )
  • Tried for Her Life (1871 )
  • A Beautiful Fiend; or, Through the Fire (1873 )
  • Victor's Triumph: The Sequel to "A Beautiful Fiend " (1874 )
  • Ishmael; or, In the Depths (1876 )
  • Self- Raised; or, From the Depths: A Sequel to " Ishmael. " (1876 )
  • The Red Hill Tragedy: A Novel (1877 )
  • The Bride's Ordeal: A Novel (1877 )
  • Her Love or Her Life: A Sequel to " The Bride's Ordeal: A Novel (1877 )
  • Sybil Brotherton: A Novel (1879 )
  • Why Did He Wed Her? (1881 )
  • For Whose Sake? A Sequel to "Why Did He Wed Her? " (1884 )
  • A Deed Without a Name ( 1886)
  • Dorothy Harcourt 's Secret: Sequel to a " A Deed Without a Name. " (1886 )
  • To His Fate: A Sequel to " Dorothy Harcourt 's Secret " (undated )
  • When Love Gets Justice: A Sequel " To His Fate. " (undated )
  • The Hidden Hand (1888 )
  • A Leap in the Dark: A Novel (1889 )
  • Unknown; or the Mystery of Raven Rocks (1889 )
  • Nearest and Dearest: A Novel (1889 )
  • Little Nea 's Engagement: A Sequel to "Nearest and Dearest. " (1889 )
  • For Woman 's Love: A Novel (1890)
  • An Unrequited Love: A Sequel to For Woman 's Love (1890)
  • The Unloved Wife: A Novel (1890)
  • When the Shadow's Darken: A Sequel to the Unloved Wife ( undated)
  • Lilith: A Sequel to "The Unloved Wife" (1891 )
  • Gloria: A Novel (1891 )
  • David Lindsay: A Sequel to Gloria (1891 )
  • Em's Husband ( 1892)
  • The Mysterious Marriage: A Sequel to "A Leap in the Dark" (1893 )
  • A Skeleton in the Closet: A Novel (1893 )
  • Brandon Coyle 's Wife: A Sequel to "A Skeleton in the Closet " (1893 )
  • Only a Girl's Heart: A Novel (1893 )
  • The Rejected Bride (1894 )
  • Gertrude Haddon (1894 )
  • Sweet Love's Atonement: A Novel (1904 )
  • Zenobia 's Suitors: Sequel to Sweet Love's Atonement (1904 )
  • Her Mother 's Secret (1910 )
  • Love's Please rest Cup: A Sequel to Her Mother 's Secret " (1910 )
  • When The Shadow's: A Sequel to "Love's Please rest Cup" (1910 )
  • When Love Commands (undated )
  • Fulfilling Her Destiny: A Sequel to " When Love Commands (undated )
  • The Initials: A Story of Modern Life (undated )
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