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

dc.contributor.authorHahn, H. George (Henry George), 1942-
dc.contributor.departmentTowson University. Department of Englishen_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-02T20:27:56Z
dc.date.available2023-03-02T20:27:56Z
dc.date.issued1984
dc.description.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.en_US
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dc.format.extent14 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2i3qn-4xhu
dc.identifier.citationHahn, 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.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0038-4496
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/26931
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Southern Mississippi. College of Arts and Sciencesen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtTowson University
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThe Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South;volume 22, issue 4
dc.subjectReese, Lizette Woodworth, 1856-1935en_US
dc.subjectMencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956en_US
dc.subjectBaltimore (Md.) -- In literatureen_US
dc.titleTwilight reflections: the hold of Victorian Baltimore on Lizette Woodworth Reese and H.L. Menckenen_US
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