Independently Published

Margret Howth. a Story of To-Day Independently Published

Margret Howth: A Story of To-Day, published in 1862 in Boston, was Rebecca Harding Davis' second widely recognized work and her first great novel. The story centers on an industrial city in Indiana during the fall and winter of 1860, and describes the suffering of the working poor at a time when industrialization was increasing throughout the United States.