EDEN Southworth

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Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (born on 26. December 1819 in Washington, DC as Emma Nevitte ; died on the thirtieth June 1899 ibid) was an American writer. She was probably the most widely read American author of the second half of the 19th century. The literary criticism counts their mostly melodramatic novels as trivial literature .

Mrs. Southworth

Life

Emma Nevitte was born in 1819. At the request of her dying father, she was baptized Emma Dorothy Eliza in 1824, so that her initials resulted in EDEN (Eden). She also published her numerous novels under this acronym. Her widowed mother married John Henshaw, the private secretary of the politician Daniel Webster , in 1826 . She spent her childhood in the rural surroundings of the capital Washington, mostly with her grandmother in Maryland , where she later set many of her stories.

In 1840 she married the windy "inventor" Frederick Hamilton Southworth and moved with him to Prairie du Chien , Wisconsin, a small town on the western boundary of the settlement, where she initially worked as a teacher at the country school. The marriage had two children. In 1844 her husband fled to South America and abandoned her and her children. The marriage never ended in divorce, but the two apparently never saw each other again; only when his wife had gotten rich with her novels did he attempt to contact her again and repeatedly demand money from her publishers, but to no avail.

EDEN Southworth initially supported her family with her income as a teacher. Her literary career began in 1845 with the publication of her first short story, The Irish Refugee . Her debut novel Retribution , published in 1849, became a bestseller, and her continued success ensured her a decent income for the next several years. She bought a villa near Washington and gathered the city's writers there over the next few years. In 1876 she settled in Yonkers, New York , but soon returned to her estate near Washington, where she died in 1899.

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The exact number of Southworth's 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 - often under different titles - published in book form. Her first novels appeared in the National Era and the Saturday Evening Post . In 1856 she signed an exclusive contract with the weekly New York Ledger , which at that time had a circulation of around 400,000 issues. Up until old age, she wrote an average of around two novels a year. In 1877 a first edition of the work appeared, which already comprised 42 volumes.

Southworth's works were primarily read by a female audience and are, on the one hand, an expression of conventional values ​​of her time - she attaches great importance to the joys of domesticity and marriage. On the other hand, many of her sentimental plots also depict escapist fantasies in which young women are left to their own devices through the hardships of fate and have to master their lives on their own until the happy ending in the form of fulfilled love or a well-deserved cash blessing sets in. This aspect of her work has led literary critics, especially recently, to believe they recognize proto-feminist statements in their works. As a result of the ongoing canon revision and the increasing cultural studies orientation of American literary studies, trivial literature in general and female authors in particular have increasingly come into the interest of researchers since the 1970s. In addition to the works of Harriet Beecher-Stowes and Louisa May Alcott , Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World and Fanny Ferns Ruth Hall 1854, Southworth's most famous novel The Hidden Hand is now frequently included in seminar plans and anthologies on American literary history.

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 Lost Heiress (1854)
  • 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 Island Princess (1859)
  • The Haunted Homestead and Other Nouvellettes (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 Engagement; or, Speaking the Truth 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)
  • The Lost Heir of Linlithgow (1872)
  • The Noble Lord: The Sequel to "The Lost Heir of Linlithgow (1872)
  • A Beautiful Fiend; or, Through the Fire (1873)
  • Victor's Triumphs: 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)
  • The Trail of the Serpent; or, The Homicide at Hawke Hall (1880)
  • 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 Lost Lady of Lone (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": A Novel (1892)
  • 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)
  • The Struggle of a Soul: A Sequel to "The Lost Lady of Lone" (1904)
  • Her Mother's Secret (1910)
  • Love's Bitterest Cup: A Sequel to Her Mother's Secret " (1910)
  • When Shadow's Die: A Sequel to "Love's Bitterest Cup" (1910)
  • When Love Commands (undated)
  • Fulfilling Her Destiny: A Sequel to "When Love Commands (undated)
  • The Initials: A Story of Modern Life (undated)

literature

  • Regis Louise Boyle: Mrs. EDEN Southworth, novelist . Washington, DC 1939.
  • Nina Baym : Women's Fiction. A Guide to Novels by and about Women in America . Urbana 1978.
  • Nina Baym: EDEN Southworth's The Hidden Hand . Introduction to the reissue of The Hidden Hand in the Oxford Popular Fiction Series , 1997.
  • Susan Coultrap-McQuin: Doing Literary Business: American Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century . Chapel Hill 1990.

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personal data
SURNAME Southworth, EDEN
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte (full name); Nevitte, Emma (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1899
Place of death Washington, DC