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'''Two excluded authors'''<br><br> '''Two excluded authors'''<br><br>
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Traces of Dutch reception in [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=cummins&work_Title=&rec_Year=&rec_authorName=&Rec_Title=&reference=&RecCountry_ID=2&pageSize=50&order=w.title ''WomenWriters'']. <br><br> Traces of Dutch reception in [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=cummins&work_Title=&rec_Year=&rec_authorName=&Rec_Title=&reference=&RecCountry_ID=2&pageSize=50&order=w.title ''WomenWriters'']. <br><br>
-[http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=cummins&work_Title=&rec_authorName=&Rec_Title=&media_ID=2&media_ID=27&rec_Year=&RecCountry_ID=2&reference=&pageSize=50 Articles] published in Dutch 19th-century press.+[http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=cummins&work_Title=&rec_authorName=&Rec_Title=&media_ID=2&media_ID=27&rec_Year=&RecCountry_ID=2&reference=&pageSize=50 Articles] published in Dutch 19th-century press.<br><br>
1. The Lamplighter (1854) <br> 1. The Lamplighter (1854) <br>

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Can We Trust 20th-Century Literary Historians?



J.G. Riewald and J. Bakker, The Critical Reception of American Literature in the Netherlands, 1824-1900: A Documentary Conspectus from Contemporary Periodicals. Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1982.

Women authors mentioned by Riewald/Bakker:
[...]

American women authors for whom reception traces have been stocked in the database WomenWriters




Two excluded authors

Maria Susannah Cummins (1827-1866)

Traces of Dutch reception in WomenWriters.

Articles published in Dutch 19th-century press.

1. The Lamplighter (1854)

translations: De lantaarnopsteker (1878)

articles: De Gids 1863 I, p. 215: mentioned


2. Mabel Vaughan (1857) (book translation) 1858, Amsterdam: Van Hulst en zoon; translator: ? (source Database—Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen) Articles: Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen 1859 I, p.91-93. Article available: UBL, UBRUN, UBU


3. El Fureidis (1860): De gelukkige christenen in het dal des Libanons (book translation) ca. 1860, Utrecht: Bosch en zoon; translator: Johannes Karel van der Wulp (source Picarta) Referenced in libraries: Cat. van der Hoek nr. 2518 ( source Database—Catalogue van der Hoek)

Articles: Tijdspiegel 1858 II, p. 125-127


4. Haunted Hearts (1864) Beklemde Harten (book translation) No date given, reference in Cat. Van der Hoek nr. 3230 (source Database)

Articles: Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen 1865 I, p. 435-437, author B.t.H.Bz. (source Database—VLO, e-laborate) Article available: UBL, UBRUN, UBU

5. Other Mentionings of Cummins in the press De Gids 1858 II, p. 642 Tijdspiegel 1858 II, P. 125-127 ( source Database)

“Fanny Fern” (1811-1872)

Sarah Payson Parton, Sara Payson Willis (other names: Eldridge, Farrington)

Original Texts 1. Newspaper columns (first woman newspaper columnist in U.S.) beginning in 1851 Boston: Olive Branch, True Flag New York: Ledger (received $100 per column!) Collections of her work: more than half a dozen collections of her columns 2. Novels Fern Leaves, June 1853 Ruth Hall, 1855 Rose Clark, 1856

Dutch Reception 1. Fern Leaves, 3 translations

Losse bladen uit Fanny Fern’s portefeuille (book translation)

1854, Haarlem: Kruseman, translator’s name ?

Nieuwe bladen uit de portefeuille van Fanny Fern (translation 2 stories) 1856, Europa 1856 II, p. 182-184 and 258-260, translator’s name unknown

Uit Fanny Fern (anthology, translation) 1858, Leeuwarden, translator Anna Dorothea van der Tholl (wife C. Busken Huet) (source: Database—NCC)

Articles: Tijdspiegel 1856 I, p. 435 (positive mention of work) Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen 1859 I, p. 189-192 (found UBL, UBRUN, UBU)

1858 Foreward to book Uit Fanny Fern, author Conrad Busken Huet (source Database—Praamstra, Gezond Verstand, p.411)


2. Ruth Hall: een verhaal uit onze dagen (book translation) 1855, Amsterdam (source Picarta)

3. Rose Clark (book translation) 1856, Den Haag: De Geus (source Database—NCC)

Articles: Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen 1857 I, p. 239-245 (found UBL, UBRUN, UBU) Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen 1872 I, p. 237 (mention) (found KB, UBA, UBL, UBU) (source Database)

4. Grepen uit het leven (translation of writings) 1870, Haarlem: Bohn, translator Marie Neve/ mevrouw P.J. Cosijn (source Database—NCC)

Articles: Ons Streven 1870 nr. 15, p. 75 Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen 1872, p. 237-238 (found UBL, UBRUN, UBU)


5. Kijkjes in de wereld (translation essay) 1871, Haarlem: Bohn, translator Marie Neve/ mw. P.J. Cosijn (source Database—NCC)

Articles: Ons streven 1870 nr. 42, p.239 Ons streven 1870 nr. 43, p.247 Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen 1871 ?, p. 377-378 (review) ( found UBA, UBL, UBU) (source Database)

Other listings which still need to be checked and specified (source Database) Kleinigheden Uit de nalatenschap van Fanny Fern 1873, Haarlem: Bohn, translator Neve/Cosijn Article: Ons streven 1873 nr. 52, p.207 Veelzijdig ontwikkelde vrouwen 1874 Vrouwenbeelden 1866






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