The Literary Salon of Annie Fields (Expanded, Annotated)

By Annie Fields

It's possible that there has never been a more important American literary salon than that of Annie Fields. Here in her own words are her intimate friendships with the luminaries of her day from her diary and letters.Into her drawing room came William Dean Howells, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Alfred Tennyson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, Charles Dudley Warner, Sarah Orne Jewett and many more..They were frequent visitors to the literary salon of publisher James T. Fields and his sparkling wife, Annie Adams. Adams was a writer as well, and is known best for short biographies of people she knew.Charles Dickens spent more time in the home of James and Annie than any other when he visited America. She even knew Edwin Booth, famous actor and brother of Lincoln's assassin, who visited in the Fields' home after Lincoln's death.If you're ever tempted to think the inhabitants of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were as stuffy as their photographs depict them, this lively and humorous book will disabuse you of that notion. The laughter roars, the gossip flies, and the masters of the day speak for themselves.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1519063687
• ISBN13: 9781519063687
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"