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Hannah Whitman Heyde de Hannah Whitman Heyde [1823-1908]

Hannah Whitman Heyde

Autor Hannah Whitman Heyde [1823-1908] Editat de Maire Mullins
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 dec 2021
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.
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ISBN-13: 9781684483600
ISBN-10: 1684483603
Pagini: 228
Ilustrații: 10 b-w images
Dimensiuni: 147 x 226 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:Adnotată
Editura: Bucknell University Press

Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

"Hannah Whitman Heyde’s Complete Correspondence is a powerful addition to Walt Whitman family correspondence, one with which future biographers must reckon. Hannah was not a masochist, psychotic, or neurotic, though these are all ways that prominent Whitman biographers have described her. Instead, Maire Mullins’s complete collection of Hannah’s letters demonstrate that Whitman biographer consensus relies too much on the testimony of Hannah’s husband, the landscape artist Charles Louis Heyde, who is revealed in her letters as a venomous snake. Hannah’s lifelong struggle, with minimal family support, was against intimate partner psychological abuse and physical violence, and against the weight of public opinion that made the truth about her marriage unspeakable in her era. Like Virginia Woolf’s imaginary sister to Shakespeare, the great American poet Walt Whitman had a favorite sister, but much documentary evidence about Hannah’s life survives, and it tells a story with immediate relevance in the #metoo era."

"Maire Mullins' edition brings Walt Whitman's sister Hannah into well-deserved cultural visibility. Bravo to Mullins for this eye-opening contribution to Whitman studies and to feminist historiography. She argues persuasively that Hannah was an important member of the close-knit Whitman family."

“[A]n indispensable resource for future Whitman scholars.”

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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. 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.