Hannah Whitman Heyde: the Complete Correspondence
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Description
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN
9781684483617, 1684483611, 9781684483600, 1684483603
Publication Date
2022
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
City
Lewisburg
Keywords
Heyde, Abused Wives, Families, United States, Whitman
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities
Recommended Citation
Whitman Heyde, Hannah Louisa and Mullins, Maire, "Hannah Whitman Heyde: the Complete Correspondence" (2022). Faculty Books. 359.
https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/facultybooks/359