Kate Field: A great important American woman journalist -- and Anthony Trollope's love

[misssylviadrake]

Dear friends and readers,

I've just finished reading Lilian Whiting's Kate Field:  A Record, a thickish book during the day, partly in response to reading Robert Polhemus's essay in the volume I'm reviewing on two stories by Anthony Trollope (Politics of Gender in Anthony Trollope), and partly because Kate Field is an important 19th century figure

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Her tone of mind and values

[misssylviadrake]

Here is an excerpt from one of Kate Field's letters where she outlines her basic attitude towards achievement, ambition, and art in life to give a sense of her tone of mind. Someone had written her telling her she should concentrate on one area of knowledge and she should try to write a great work such that people would (at least profess to) admire it and her. She is wasting herself by her different projects and getting involved in all these movements

[misssylviadrake]

Thanks, Ellen. I found this interesting. Bob