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• W2000259571 abstract "Reviews 493 Carolyn J. Moss, ed. Kate Field: Selected Letters. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois UP, 1996. 283 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-3093-2078-90. How could it happen that one of the most widely known nineteenth century American women, known in Europe as well as in America, was so soon forgotten and rarely recaUed for one hundred years? Carolyn J. Moss has made a major contribution to what one may hope will become a revival of the undeservedly forgotten Kate Field (1838-1896). Twenty years ago, when I was writing a history of Lasell College in Auburndale, Massachusetts, I discovered that the seventeen-year old Kate Field had been a pupil at the then Lasell Female Seminary in 1855/6. The only daughter of St. Louis actors Joseph M. Field and Eliza Riddle Field, she had been sent to the new but highly regarded school by her wealthy Boston uncle, Milton H. Sanford. The only information I could find about Kate Field was in an old grangerized Kate Field: A Record, by LiUan Whiting, pubUshed four years after Kate's death in Hawai'i. More a compilation than a biography, Whiting's book nevertheless contains a considerable number of her friend Kate's letters. The copy of the book I had was supplemented with newspaper articles, notices, and most interestingly, an original letter showing Kate's large, free-flowing handwriting. Of course there were entries on Kate in the Dictionary of American Biography (a woman of exceptional though eccentric intellectual gifts), and in Notable American Women (for three decades a personality in the public eye), and references to her crop up in the biographies of such notables as John Brown (of Harper's Ferry), Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Walter Savage Landor, Alexander Graham Bell, Heinrich SchHemann, James T. and Annie Fields, and Helen Hunt Jackson. But with one delightful exception, these few sources constitute almost all that has been published about her. That exception is the work of Anthony Trollope and his later commentators. Trollope's 1883 Autobiography referred to a young American girl as my most chosen friend and a ray of light to me. This girl was Kate Field, and many pages in N. John Hall's definitive biography of Trollope (1991) are devoted to her relationship to the novelist and members of his family. Carolyn J. Moss's chronological arrangement of letters constitutes a life of Kate Field starting from 1843, when she was only four years old, to her death in 1896. Though Field's literary executor Lilian Whiting left the major collection of memorabüia in the Boston Public Library, Moss has located letters in thirty-one U.S. institutions. For the present volume she has selected slightly over half of the six hundred letters avaüable to her. An appendix Hsts the additional letters chronologically, providing dates, present locations, and names of recipients. The letters actually printed are both inherently interesting 494 Biography 20.4 (Fall 1997) and map out the course of Field's career. A seven-part biographical introduction is followed by a ten-part chronological arrangement of the letters. Extensive notations on individual letters, the result of meticulous research, make this a model of proper editing, and the fifteen illustrations are a welcome addition. Field's correspondents are significant in various ways. Especially in the very early years, letters sent to her mother, her aunt, and close friends predominate. These letters are followed by a larger group of business letters concerning her travels, finances, lectures and stage appearances, and her work as foreign correspondent, drama critic, or general commentator for newspapers and magazines. She wrote frequently to three New York gentlemen: Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune; Edmund Clarence Stedman, poet, critic, and WaU St. broker; and Laurence Hutton, author and drama critic. Though business letters, they also display a mutual respect and even affection between the correspondents. These and many other letters suggest that, while she had many women friends, Kate Field was at least as much at ease with men, and that they, in turn, were attracted to her. Though not a conventional beauty, Field was a handsome woman who obviously made the most..." @default.
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