. A short history of England's and America's literature, by Eva March Tappan. r the unusual isthe natural manifestation of some typical quality. Eliza-beth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844- ) in 1866 venturedto treat our notions of heaven in somewhat realisticfashion in Gates Ajar. She has proved in many vol-umes her knowledge of the New England woman. Some•of her best later work has been in the line of the shortstory, as, for instance, her Jonathan and David. RoseTerry Cooke (1827-1892) has found the humor which isthinly veiled by the New England austerity. The storiesof Kate Douglas Wiggin Riggs (18


. A short history of England's and America's literature, by Eva March Tappan. r the unusual isthe natural manifestation of some typical quality. Eliza-beth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844- ) in 1866 venturedto treat our notions of heaven in somewhat realisticfashion in Gates Ajar. She has proved in many vol-umes her knowledge of the New England woman. Some•of her best later work has been in the line of the shortstory, as, for instance, her Jonathan and David. RoseTerry Cooke (1827-1892) has found the humor which isthinly veiled by the New England austerity. The storiesof Kate Douglas Wiggin Riggs (1857- ) are markedby a keen sense of humor and sparkle with vivid bitsof description. The early days of California have beenpictured by Helen Hunt Jackson (1831-1885) in Ra-mona, a novel which voiced the authors righteous in-dignation at the harshness and injustice shown to theIndians by the United States government. Her earlierwork was poetry; and in this, too, she has taken nohumble place. Mary Hallock Foote (1847- ) nassympathetically interpreted with both brush and pen.


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