. Home school of American literature: . FRANCES MIRIAM WHITCHER. THE WIDOW BEDOTT AND WIDOW T was back in the early forties in Neals Gazette that the WidowBeclott Table Talk series of articles began to attract attention, andthe question arose, Who is the Widow Bedott? for no one knew atthat time that Mrs. Whitcher was the real author behind this nom-de-plume. James Neal himself—the well-known author of Char-coal Sketches and publisher of the magazine above referred to—was so struck with the originality and clearness of the first of the series when sub-mitted that he sought a corres
. Home school of American literature: . FRANCES MIRIAM WHITCHER. THE WIDOW BEDOTT AND WIDOW T was back in the early forties in Neals Gazette that the WidowBeclott Table Talk series of articles began to attract attention, andthe question arose, Who is the Widow Bedott? for no one knew atthat time that Mrs. Whitcher was the real author behind this nom-de-plume. James Neal himself—the well-known author of Char-coal Sketches and publisher of the magazine above referred to—was so struck with the originality and clearness of the first of the series when sub-mitted that he sought a correspondence with the author, thinking it was a man, andaddressed her as My dear Bedott. Mrs. Whitcher often insisted that she mustcease to write, as her humorous sketches were not relished by some of her neighborswhom they touched, but Mr. Neal would not hear to it. In a letter of September10, 1846, he wrote: It is a theory of mine that those gifted with truly humorousgenius like yourself are more useful as moralists, philosophers and teachers thanwhole legions of the gravest preachers. They speak
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