Name: The Thief in the Night.(1872) By: Harriet Prescott Spofford
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Author: Spofford, Harriet Prescott
ISBN: 9781532981555

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The Thief in the Night.(1872) By: Harriet Prescott Spofford

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Physical Book

Author

Harriet Prescott Spofford

Publisher

Createspace

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

25.4 x 20.3 x 0.4 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9781532981555

Synopsis "The Thief in the Night.(1872) By: Harriet Prescott Spofford"

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (April 3, 1835 - August 14, 1921) was a notable American writer remembered for her novels, poems and detective stories.Born in Calais, Maine, in 1835 Spofford moved with her parents to Newburyport, Massachusetts, which was ever after her home, though she spent many of her winters in Boston and Washington, D.C. She attended the Putnam Free School in Newburyport, and Pinkerton Academy in Derry, New Hampshire from 1853 to 1855. At Newburyport her prize essay on Hamlet drew the attention of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who soon became her friend, and gave her counsel and encouragement. Spofford began writing after her parents became sick, sometimes working fifteen hours a day. She contributed story papers for small pay to Boston. In 1859, she sent a story about Parisian life entitled "In a Cellar" to Atlantic Monthly. The magazine's editor, James Russell Lowell, at first believed the story to be a translation and withheld it from publication. Reassured that it was original, he published it and it established her reputation. She became a welcome contributor to the chief periodicals of the United States, both of prose and poetry. Spofford's fiction had very little in common with what was regarded as representative of the New England mind. Her gothic romances were set apart by luxuriant descriptions, and an unconventional handling of female stereotypes of the day. Her writing was ideal, intense in feeling. In her descriptions and fancies, she reveled in sensuous delights and every variety of splendor.

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