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    Twilight reflections: the hold of Victorian Baltimore on Lizette Woodworth Reese and H.L. Mencken

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    Author/Creator
    Hahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-
    Date
    1984
    Type of Work
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    14 pages
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    journal articles
    Department
    Towson University. Department of English
    Citation of Original Publication
    Hahn, H. George, II. "Twilight reflections: The hold of Victorian Baltimore on Lizette Woodworth Reese and H.L. Mencken." The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South, vol. 22, no. 4, 1984, pp. 5-21. MLA International Bibliography, https://proxy-tu.researchport.umd.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=1984083424&site=eds-live&scope=site.
    Subjects
    Reese, Lizette Woodworth, 1856-1935
    Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
    Baltimore (Md.) -- In literature
    Abstract
    [From article]: To the old, as Faulkner wrote in “A Rose for Emily,” “all the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches.” Certainly for Baltimore’s two preeminent native authors, the spring meadows of their youth remain forever green in a set of autobiographical masterpieces, in many ways the crowns of their respective achievements. Taken together, Lizette Woodworth Reese’s A Victorian Village (1929) and The York Road (1931) and H. L. Mencken’s Happy Days (1940) and Heathen Days (1943) provide sensitive and vivid glimpses of the last forty years of nineteenth-century Baltimore. Even more, they reveal the Victorian Baltimore of their early years to have been a fertile soil and salubrious climate for the nurturing of their geniuses. Combined, these reminiscences allow a shape and color to their times often unnoticed by social historians and highlight a dimension to their work usually neglected by literary historians concerned more with belles lettres than with autobiography.


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    Towson University
    8000 York Road
    Towson, Maryland 21252

    Website:
    www.towson.edu

    Contact Info:
    azukowski@towson.edu
    410-704-5318
    http://libraries.towson.edu/md-soar


    If you wish to submit a copyright complaint or withdrawal request, please email mdsoar-help@umd.edu.