Rebecca Harding Davis was a prolific novelist, best known for her slave narrative, "The Long Loneliness". She was born in Baltimore to a wealthy family. After the death of her father, she moved with her mother and brother to Washington, D.C. There she began writing her first novel, The Long Loneliness, which was published in 1859
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In 1863, she married Henry W. Davis, a prominent lawyer from South Carolina. They had one son before divorcing after five years of marriage.
In 1869, she married James D. Harding and moved to New York City. "The Long Loneliness" became a best-seller and was reprinted over 20 times between 1860 and the late 1890s.
Her other works include "The Woman I Left Behind Me", "A Woman's Life", "South Carolina", and "The Power of the Woman's Soul".