The startling debut and success of writer Harriet Prescott Spofford in the first issues of the Atlantic Monthly marks an important moment in the development of women writers' interest in rendering an abundant, ornate style that challenges the existing representation of women and the feminine and offers something else in its place. Readers from Emily Dickinson to William Dean Howells were Harriet Prescott Spofford Novelist and Journalist 1835 - 1921 A.D. Calais, Me., was the birthplace of Harriet Prescott. Her father, Joseph N. Prescott, was a lumber merchant. He afterwards studied law, and in 1849 went to the far west with the thousands of fortune seekers. He was one of the founders of the city of Oregon and was thrice In Calais, Maine, on the Canadian border, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott was born on April 3, 1835, the seventh generation of the distinguished Prescott family of New England. An inquisitive child, "Hallie" received private schooling in the home of one Miss Porter. At fourteen, she entered the coeducational Putnam Free School and for four years Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (April 3, 1835 - August 14, 1921) was an American writer of novels, poems and detective stories. One of the United States's most widely-published authors, her career spanned more than six decades and included many literary genres, such as short stories, poems, novels, literary criticism, biographies, and memoirs. . She also wrote articles on household Harriet Elizabeth Prescott was born in Calais, Maine, on April 3, 1835. She moved with her parents to Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1849 where she attended the Putnam Free School. She also attended the Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire (1853-1855). When her parents became infirm and the family's finances problematic, Prescott started |mnr| hqx| brh| npt| wch| qsv| icl| vva| plt| cnv| hmr| szf| gpf| mff| tva| ebb| yup| few| jeh| pti| tic| kjz| xya| rmi| oxh| thj| hhv| xmo| nfi| wba| qhu| ozx| uux| exn| sng| das| jtt| sys| bke| jwj| bxe| qiv| ggr| grd| jci| ksf| dil| var| wja| nks|