Legacy
A prolific writer, Rebecca Harding Davis is credited with over 500 published works. Despite her outpouring of literary works, she was almost entirely forgotten by the time of her death in 1910. However, Davis was rediscovered in the very early 1970s by the feminist writer Tillie Olsen, who found a collection of Davis' works in a junk shop. Olsen quickly recognized the talent and significance of Davis' writings, and personally endeavored to reintroduce Davis' work. In 1972, The Feminist Press published Life in the Iron Mills with Olsen's own biographical interpretation of Rebecca Harding Davis' life in relation to a selection of her published works.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)