Marietta Holley (1836–1926)
Auteur de Samantha at Saratoga
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Marietta Holley [aka Josiah Allen's Wife] (1836-1926), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Séries
Œuvres de Marietta Holley
My wayward pardner : or, My trials with Josiah, America, the Widow Bump, and etcetery (1895) 12 exemplaires
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 exemplaires
Rare SAMANTHA AT THE WORLD'S FAIR by Josiah Allen's Wife, 1893 1st Ed, Illustrated (1893) 2 exemplaires
Samantha Among The Brethren 1 exemplaire
Samantha at Saratoga 1 exemplaire
The Widder Doodle's Courtship 1 exemplaire
Rare 1884 My Opinions & Betsey Bobbet’s, Guide for Women to Life Liberty Happiness (1884) 1 exemplaire
My opinions and Betsy Bobbet's. Designed as a beacon light, to guide women to life, liberty, and the pursuit of… 1 exemplaire
Josiah's alarm, and Abel Perry's funeral 1 exemplaire
Samantha Among the Bretheren 1 exemplaire
Samantha at Saratoga or, "Flirtin' with Fashion" 1 exemplaire
Samantha at Saratoga or, "Racin' After Fashion" 1 exemplaire
Rare Samantha in Europe 1896 Josiah Allen's Wife / Ugly Americans / DeGrimm Illustat (1777) 1 exemplaire
Samantha at the St. Louis World’s Fair 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Women in the Trees: U.S. Women's Short Stories About Battering and Resistance, 1839-1994 (1996) — Contributeur — 39 exemplaires
The Tavern Lamps Are Burning: Literary Journeys through Six Regions and Four Centuries of New York State (1964) — Contributeur — 19 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1836-07-16
- Date de décès
- 1926-03-01
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Ellisburg, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Ellisburg, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Jefferson County, New York, USA
- Professions
- humorist
satirist - Courte biographie
- 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.
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Critiques
Samantha at the St. Louis World’s Fair par 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.… (plus d'informations)
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.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 35
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 286
- Popularité
- #81,618
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 99
- Favoris
- 1