"Many Things Take My Time": The journals of Susan Warner.
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Title
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"Many Things Take My Time": The journals of Susan Warner.
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Identifier
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AAI9605681
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identifier
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9605681
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Creator
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Weiss, Jane.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Neal Tolchin
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Date
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1995
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, American | Biography
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Abstract
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Theological in theme and naturalistic in style, the fiction of Susan Warner, 1819-1885, anticipated the realist and local colorist novels of the late nineteenth century. In addition to her published works, Warner wrote private journals throughout her life.;This edition presents the text of Warner's five surviving journals which comprise Warner's personal writings of 1832- 1833, 1834-1835, 1835-1839, 1850-1853, and 1863. The first three journals describe Warner's childhood and adolescence among fashionable New York City society and the family's move to rural Constitution Island, New York, following financial reverses. The journal of 1850-1853 describes the writing and publication of Warner's first three novels, The Wide, Wide World, Queechy and The Hills of the Shatemuc. The journal of 1863 describes a winter in Rhinebeck, New York at the home of Mary Garrettson, daughter of the prominent Methodist minister Freeborn Garrettson.;The current edition consists of a diplomatic transcription which reflects Warner's spelling and punctuation and the author's alterations to the text; the editor's annotations; and commentary on the contexts of the journals. The edition also includes a brief biography of Susan Warner.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
