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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 324 324 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 152 152 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 82 82 Browse Search
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 68 68 Browse Search
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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 50 50 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 44 44 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 41 41 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 38 38 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 33 33 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 4: the New York period (search)
ondary fact as regards the basis of his fame. They obtained for him his degree at Oxford, but Mr. Warner has well pointed out that the students were more far-seeing when they shouted, by way of applause, on that occasion, the names of Rip Van Winkle and Ichabod Crane. It is after all, in Edmund Quincy's phrase, not specific gravity, but specific levity which often serves to keep a reputation afloat. When Irving came back to New York he might be seen, as George Curtis describes him, about 1850, on an autumnal afternoon, tripping with an elastic step along Broadway, with low-quartered shoes neatly tied, and a Talma cloak — a short garment that hung from the shoulders like the cape of a coat. There was a chirping, cheery, oldschool air in his appearance which was undeniably Dutch, and most harmonious with the associations of his writings. My only personal observation of Washington Irving was too much like his description of his only glimpse of the Stout Gentleman, after watching f
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 5: the New England period — Preliminary (search)
er Stowe. Mrs. Stowe was born in New England. If she had spent her life there she might prob-Harriet ably have been an abolitionist, but Beecher could hardly have written Uncle Tom's cabin. As it happened, she lived in Cincinnati from 1832 to 1850; and it was during this period that the materials were gathered for her famous book. Before her return to New England she had had plenty of opportunity for actual contact with slavery; she had frequently visited the slave States, had sheltered frtence. The establishment of the Atlantic monthly in 1857 marks the attainment of a distinct standard of pure literature among the descendants of the Puritans. The Knickerbocker magazine was breathing its last in New York, and Harper's magazine (1850) was as yet producing little literature of power. The Atlantic monthly, on the other hand, was able to depend at once upon an established constituency of writers. Lowell was its first editor, and his stipulation in accepting the position -that
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 7: the Concord group (search)
ot until the publication of Twice-told tales (1837) did he obtain recognition. A brief residence in the Brook Farm community gave him the materials for The Blithedale romance. In 1841 he was married, and settled in the Old Manse at Concord, which, some years later, he made famous in Mosses from an old Manse. He afterwards held a post in the Salem Custom House for three years; during which period he wrote little, but The Scarlet letter gradually took shape in his mind. It was published in 1850, to be followed during the two succeeding years by The house of the seven Gables and The Blithedale romance. Then followed seven years in Europe, four of them at the Liverpool consulate, and, as a result, his last great romance, The marble Faun. He died May 19, 1864. Hawthorne we all agree to be the greatest American imaginative prose writer; and his place in the literature of our tongue becomes every day more sure. If his genius matured slowly, it did really mature. His notebooks are
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, Chapter 9: the Western influence (search)
but as most of their work was based upon reading rather than experience, it had nothing characteristically Western about it. Most of them turned instinctively, ere long, to the Atlantic coast for sympathy and bookstores, as the Atlantic states had looked to Europe. I shall always remember with satisfaction the delight with which Elizabeth Whittier, the poet's far more brilliant and vivacious sister, used to tell the tale of how their mother was once called to their modest front door, about 1850, by two plump and lively maidens who inquired for her son. They were told that he was not at home. They cheerfully announced that they would come in and wait for him; and on being told that he was in Boston and might not return that day, they said that it was of no manner of consequence; they had just arrived from Ohio, were themselves authors, and would come in and remain until he got back. So they came in and waited, and proved to be Alice and Phoebe Cary. They were brought up in an Ohi
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
ms (1846); Miscellanies (1849) ; Representative men (1850); English traits (1856); The conduct of life (1860);Mosses from an old Manse (1846); The Scarlet letter (1850) ; The house of seven Gables (1851); The wonder book He also issued Urania, poem (1846); Astrcea, poem (1850); Songs in many keys (1862); Soundings from the Atlaf Captain Booneville (1837); his complete works (1848-50); Mahomet and his successors (1849-50); Oliver Goldsm50); Oliver Goldsmith, a biography (1849); WVolfert's Roost, and other papers (1855); Life of George Washington (1855-59). Died 847); Kavanagh (1849); The Seaside and the Fireside (1850); The golden legend (1851); The song of Hiawatha (18s of freedom (1849); Songs of labor and other poems (1850); The Chapel of the Hermits, and other poems (1853); journal (1849) ; Old Portraits and modern sketches (1850) ; and Literary Recreations (1854); A final edition cil (1845); Rural letters (1849); People I have met (1850); Hurrygraphs (1851); A summer Cruise in the Mediter
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, chapter 13 (search)
te's Jane Eyre. 1847. Thackeray's Vanity Fair. 1848-1876. Macaulay's History of England. 1850. Wordsworth died. 1850. Tennyson Poet-Laureate. 1850. Tennyson's In Memoriam. 1852. Thac1850. Tennyson Poet-Laureate. 1850. Tennyson's In Memoriam. 1852. Thackeray's Henry Esmond. 1853. Kingsley's Hypatia. 1854-1856. Crimean War. 1856. Matthew Arnold's Poems. 1857. Indian Mutiny. 1859. Darwin's Origin of species. 1859. George Eliot's Adam1850. Tennyson's In Memoriam. 1852. Thackeray's Henry Esmond. 1853. Kingsley's Hypatia. 1854-1856. Crimean War. 1856. Matthew Arnold's Poems. 1857. Indian Mutiny. 1859. Darwin's Origin of species. 1859. George Eliot's Adam Bede. 1862. Spencer's First principles. 1864. Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies. 1864. Newman's Apologia. 1865. Matthew Arnold's Essays in criticism. 1866. Swinburne's Poems and ballads. 1 1849. George Ticknor's History of Spanish literature. 1849. Whittier's Voices of freedom. 1850. Hawthorne's Scarlet letter. 1850. Webster's Seventh of March Speech. 1851. Mrs. Stowe's Un1850. Webster's Seventh of March Speech. 1851. Mrs. Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin. 1853. Curtis's Potiphar papers. 1854. Thoreau's Walden. 1855. Whitman's Leaves of grass. 1855. Longfellow's Hiawatha. 1857. The Dred Scott Decision. 1857. Atlantic