Chapter Chapter 7 of Index by Simonds History of American Literature

and The Story of Patsy in 1889. Of her subsequent stories Rebecca (1903) has, perhaps, had the largest success. Her popular character, Penelope, first appeared in Penelope's English Experiences (1893).

Mrs. Edith Wharton (born at New York, 1862) won a place of distinction based largely upon her intensely realistic novels, The House of Mirth (1905) and The Fruit of the Tree (1907). Owen Wister (born at Philadelphia, 1860) is known as the author of The Virginian (1902). Richard Harding Davis (1864- 1916) was born at Philadelphia. A journalist and famed as a war correspondent, he was one of the most popular short-story writers of the day; the creator of "Gallagher" and "Van Bibber," and author of several popular romances, among which are The King's Jackal (1898), Soldiers of Fortune (1899), and The White Mice (1909). Robert W. Chambers (born at Brooklyn, 1865), who began as a writer of romantic tales, of which Lorraine (1896) and Cardigan (1901) are the best, later entered the realistic field, producing a series of hectic novels of metropolitan life, of which The Fighting Chance (1906), The Firing Line (1908), and The Danger Mark (1909) are examples. Paul Leicester Ford (1865-1902), author of The Honorable Peter Stirling (1894) and Janice Meredith (1899), and Stephen Crane (1871- 1900), a young New York journalist, who wrote a remarkable realistic study of battle, The Red Badge of Courage (1896), were two young writers of promise whose work was interrupted by early death. David Graham Phillips (1867-1911) was born in Indiana but his literary career was in New York. His twenty novels, dealing seriously with ethical and social problems of the day, include The Great God, Success (1903), The Deluge (1905), The Second Generation (1907), and The Conflict (1911).

Southern Story-Tellers.

The Southern States are well represented in the fiction which depicts local types of character, and have, besides, produced novelists of note whose work is more general in its scope.

In Georgia.

Similar to the work of some of the New England realists is that of Richard Malcolm Johnston (1822- 1898), whose novels and tales portray the picturesque manners prevailing in portions of his native state. Old Mark Langston (1883), The Primes and their Neighbors (1891), Pearce Amerson's Will, and Old Times in Middle Georgia (1897) are examples. Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908), for twenty-five years editor of the Atlanta Constitution, worked in the same field. Balaam and his Master (1891), On the Plantation (1892), Stories of Georgia, The Story of Aaron, Tales of the Home Folks, are the titles of some of these volumes; but it is as "Uncle Remus," teller of tales concerning Br'er Rabbit and Br'er Fox, that this author is most widely known. Uncle Remus -- His Songs and his Sayings was published in 1880. Told by Uncle Remus appeared in 1905, and almost the last publication of this writer was a volume entitled Uncle Remus and Br'er Rabbit (1907).

Virginia.

Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) was the author of stories which have their scene in the Old Dominion. Among them are: In Ole Virginia (1887), Two Little Confederates (1888), Elsket (1892), Red Rock (1898), Gordon Keith (1903), Bred in the Bone and Other Stories (1904). Amélie Rives, Princess Troubetzkoy (born at Richmond, 1863), owes her literary reputation largely to her first novel, The Quick or the Dead, published in 1888.

Mary Johnston (born 1870) has written three historical romances dealing with old colony times in Virginia: Prisoners of Hope (1898), To Have and to Hold (1900), and Sir Mortimer (1904). In Lewis Rand (1908), Miss Johnston presents a picturesque study of political life at the opening of the nineteenth century. The Goddess of Reason (1907) is a drama on the theme of the French Revolution. Ellen A. G. Glasgow (born at Richmond, 1874) is the author of The Descendant (1897), The Deliverance (1904), The Wheel of Life (1906), The Romance of a Plain Man (1909), and The Miller of Old Church (1911) -- realistic novels of more than usual strength.