Hannah Whitman Heyde

The Complete Correspondence

Hannah Whitman Heyde [1823-1908] (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

228 Seiten

2021
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-361-7 (ISBN)

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The correspondence of Hannah Whitman Heyde (1823-1908), younger sister of poet Walt Whitman, provides a rare glimpse into the life of a nineteenth-century woman. Hannah's complete letters provide an important insight into the life of a real nineteenth-century woman, sister, and wife to famous men.

The correspondence of Hannah Whitman Heyde (1823-1908), younger sister of poet Walt Whitman, provides a rare glimpse into the life of a nineteenth-century woman. Married to well-known Vermont landscape artist Charles Louis Heyde (1820-1892), Hannah documented in letters to her mother, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman (1795-1873), and other family members, her lived experience of ongoing physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her husband. Hannah has long been characterized in biographical and scholarly studies of Whitman’s family as a neurotic and a hypochondriac—a narrative promulgated by Heyde himself—but Walt Whitman carefully preserved his sister’s letters, telling his literary biographer that his intention was to document her plight. Hannah’s complete letters, gathered here for the first time and painstakingly edited and annotated by Maire Mullins, provide an important counternarrative, allowing readers insight into the life of a real nineteenth-century woman, sister, and wife to famous men, who endured and eventually survived domestic violence.

HANNAH WHITMAN HEYDE (1823-1908), sister of the poet Walt Whitman, was the fourth child of Walter Whitman Sr. and Louisa Van Velsor Whitman. She was educated in Brooklyn, NY and Hempstead, Long Island. In 1852 she married the landscape painter Charles Louis Heyde (1820-1892), and for forty years, captured her life experience in correspondence with her family.She died at age 85 in Burlington, VT. MAIRE MULLINS is a professor of English at Pepperdine University. As a Fulbright Scholar to Japan, Mullins taught at Tokyo Christian Women's University and Tokyo Gakugei University. Her areas of expertise include Walt Whitman, Hannah Whitman Heyde, digital humanities, religion and literature, and gender studies. She lives in Malibu, California, with her husband and daughters.

Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Whitman Family Genealogy

Introduction

The Complete Correspondence

1 1852–1853: Letters 1–3

“I am afraid you will be plagued to read this. . . .”

2 1855: Letters 4–9

“I have more to regret than any of you. . . .”

3 1856: Letters 10–19

“I hope I shall not die in a hotel. . . .”

4 1858–1861: Letters 20–27

“I am afraid I have done wrong in telling you. . . .”

5 1862–1865: Letters 28–37

“Have you heard from George”

6 1866–1868: Letters 38–42

“. . . this is only a line. . . .”

7 1872–1873: Letters 43–51

“. . . try to not greive. . . .”

8 1879–1892: Letters 52–62

“. . . I only wish I could do something for you. . . .”

9 1905: Letter 63

“the birth place of my brother Walt Whitman”

Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of the Whitman Family

Appendix B: Obituary of Hannah Whitman Heyde

Appendix C: List of Letters from Hannah Whitman Heyde:

Dates, Recipients, and Manuscript Sources

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.01.2022
Zusatzinfo	10 b-w images
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-68448-361-1 / 1684483611
ISBN-13	978-1-68448-361-7 / 9781684483617
Zustand	Neuware