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[CHAPTER XI]
RECORDERS OF THE NEW ENGLAND DECLINE
The New England school, which had so dominated the mid-nineteenth century, left, as we have seen, no heirs. As the great figures of the "Brahmins" disappeared one by one, vigorous young leaders from without the Boston circle came into their places, but the real succession—the native New England literary generation after Emerson—was feminine. During the decade from 1868 the following books, written by women born, the most of them, in those thirties which had witnessed the beginnings of the earlier group, came from the American press:
| 1868. | Little Women, Louisa M. Alcott (1832–1888). |
| 1868. | The Gates Ajar, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911). |
| 1870. | Verses, Helen Hunt Jackson (1831–1885). |
| 1872. | Poems, Celia Thaxter (1836–1894). |
| 1873. | The Saxe Holm Stories, "Saxe Holm." |
| 1875. | One Summer, Blanche Willis Howard (1847–1898). |
| 1875. | After the Ball and Other Poems, Nora Perry (1841–1896). |
| 1877. | Deephaven, Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909). |
| 1878. | The China Hunter's Club, Annie Trumbull Slosson (1838——). |
Of the same generation, but earlier or else later in the literary field, were the poets Elizabeth Akers Allen (1832–1911), and Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908); the essayist Mary Abigail Dodge, "Gail Hamilton" (1838–1896); the novelists Rose Terry Cooke (1827–1892), Jane G. Austin (1831–1894), and Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835——); and, latest of all to be known, the intense lyrist Emily Dickinson (1830–1886). In the eighties was to come the school of the younger realists, a part of the classical reaction—Alice Brown (1857——), Kate Douglas Wiggin (1859——) and Mary E. Wilkins (1862——), who were to record the later phases of the New England decline.
Outside of the New England environment there was also a notable outburst of feminine literature. In the thirteen years from 1875 appeared the following significant first volumes: