Washington Irving
This early work by Charles Dudley Warner was originally published in 1901. Born in Massachusetts, USA in 1829, Charles Dudley Warner was a gifted and popular writer with a keen interest in the social questions of his time. He became the first president of the National Institute for Arts and Letters and was a friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored The Gilded Age. This book on the life of Washington Irving is a fascinating work and thoroughly recommended for anyone with an interest in American literary history. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly e…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4474-5965-1
- EAN: 9781447459651
- Produktnummer: 13473104
- Verlag: Read Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 300 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.7 cm 403 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 403
Über den Autor
Warner was born of Puritan descent in Plainfield, Massachusetts. From the ages of six to fourteen he lived in Charlemont, Massachusetts, the place and time revisited in his book Being a Boy (1877). He then moved to Cazenovia, New York, and in 1851 graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. [1]He worked with a surveying party in Missouri and then studied law at the University of Pennsylvania. He moved to Chicago, where he practiced law from 1856 to 1860, when he relocated to Connecticut to become assistant editor of The Hartford Press. By 1861 he had become editor, a position he held until 1867, when the paper merged into The Hartford Courant and he became co-editor with Joseph R. Hawley.In 1884 he joined the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine, for which he conducted The Editor's Drawer until 1892, when he took charge of The Editor's Study. [1]He died in Hartford on October 20, 1900, and was interred at Cedar Hill Cemetery, with Mark Twain as a pall bearer and Joseph Twichell officiating.[2][3]Warner traveled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and, at the time of his death, was president of the American Social Science Association.
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