Marietta Holley (1836–1926)
Autor(a) de Samantha at Saratoga
About the Author
Image credit: Marietta Holley [aka Josiah Allen's Wife] (1836-1926), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Séries
Obras por Marietta Holley
My wayward pardner : or, My trials with Josiah, America, the Widow Bump, and etcetery (1895) 12 exemplares
Josiah Allen's Wife As a P. A. and P. I. Samantha At the Centennial. Designed As a Bright and Shining Light, to Pierce… (1888) 11 exemplares
Rare SAMANTHA AT THE WORLD'S FAIR by Josiah Allen's Wife, 1893 1st Ed, Illustrated (1893) 2 exemplares
Samantha Among The Brethren 1 exemplar
Samantha at Saratoga 1 exemplar
The Widder Doodle's Courtship 1 exemplar
Rare 1884 My Opinions & Betsey Bobbet’s, Guide for Women to Life Liberty Happiness (1884) 1 exemplar
Josiah's alarm, and Abel Perry's funeral 1 exemplar
Samantha Among the Bretheren 1 exemplar
Rare Samantha in Europe 1896 Josiah Allen's Wife / Ugly Americans / DeGrimm Illustat (1777) 1 exemplar
Samantha at the St. Louis World’s Fair 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Women in the Trees: U.S. Women's Short Stories About Battering and Resistance, 1839-1994 (1996) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
The Tavern Lamps Are Burning: Literary Journeys through Six Regions and Four Centuries of New York State (1964) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1836-07-16
- Data de falecimento
- 1926-03-01
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Ellisburg, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Ellisburg, New York, USA
- Locais de residência
- Jefferson County, New York, USA
- Ocupações
- humorist
satirist
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Marietta Holley was born on the family farm in Jefferson County, New York. Her formal education ended at age 14 as she had to work to help support the family. She began her literary career writing for newspapers and women’s magazines. In 1873, she published her first book, My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet’s, and subsequently published 20 more books featuring her trademark humor and wit. She used satire to express her strong feminist views, often criticizing the double standard for men and women, as well as criticizing the exploitation of workers and racism. Although forgotten today, Holley was called the "female Mark Twain" in her own day and sold more copies of her books than Twain did.
Membros
Críticas
Samantha at the St. Louis World’s Fair por Marietta Holley
This lovely book was written about a topic dear to my heart - St. Louis, Missouri. It was quaint and fascinating at the same time, As Holley wrote from the narrator’s point of view in the narrator’s vernacular. Samantha is a woman from a small mid-western town in 1904, and her speech is full of colloquialisms and “country” feeling. It felt as if I had a real glimpse of that time and of that fair. Many parts of Samantha’s descriptions were long lists of the amazing sights and details of the fair. It truly must have been a magnificent display.… (mais)
It saddens me to see that Marietta Holley's books have lost popularity today, though in her time she was quite the famous writer. I started reading this book after I catalogued it for LT -- I kept reading brief snippets that made me laugh out loud. She gets a bit preachy at time, but is without doubt a brilliant writer. The character which she assumes is an uneducated woman, but Holley is the opposite. Her word play is ingenious and invigorates stuffy English (ex: "...all Mr. Abraham had to do wuz to gird up his lions. This is what it sez. And I don't believe it would take much time to gird up a few lions, it don't seem to me as if it would." AND "It wuz a fair seen, seen for a moment..."). In addition, she is fabulously feminist in a time when women still had little power. Her brief discourse on the torture of the corset was a delight, and her interactions with her husband (another rather amusing character, though in a different vein from Samantha) prove her capability and intelligence. I'm looking forward to reading several more of Holley's books.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 35
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 286
- Popularidade
- #81,618
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 2
- ISBN
- 99
- Marcado como favorito
- 1