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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.) 10 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 4 0 Browse Search
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 2 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 2 0 Browse Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 4. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) 2 0 Browse Search
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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.), Book III (continued) (search)
ound, and her novels of New England life—particularly The minister's Wooing (1859), The Pearl of Orr's Island (1862), Oldtown Folks (1869), Poganuc people (1878）—cannot go unmentioned. Weak in structure and sentimental she remained. Her heroinespily alien to all but a few New England and Noncomformist British bosoms; her bold seducers, like Ellery Davenport in Oldtown Folks and Aaron Burr in The minister's Wooing, are villains to frighten schoolgirls; she writes always as from the pulpit, ns she most fully realized in Poganuc people, crisp, sweet, spare (for her), never quite sufficiently praised, and in Oldtown Folks, like the other a series of sketches rather than a novel, but— perhaps all the more because of that—still outstandingable stories dealing with New England. Adaptable to literary as to other circumstances, Mrs. Stowe had actually in Oldtown Folks fallen in with the imperious current proceeding from the example of Bret Harte, whose Luck of roaring camp stands
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.), Index (search)
, 137, 139 O. Henry. See Porter, W. S. Oithono, 582 O Keepa, A Religious Ceremony, 149 Old and New, 121 Old Cambridge, 119 Old Dan Tucker, 516 Old Grumbly, 511 Old Homestead, 285 Old Lavender, 279 Old man under the Hill, the, 514 Old New York, 179 Old regime in Canada, the, 190 Old Santa Fe Trail, the, 133 Old Schoolhouse on the Creek, the, 584 Old South Leaflets, 166 Old sweetheart of mine, an, 6 Old Swimmina Hole and 'Leven more poems, the, 60 Oldtown Folks, 72, 73 Old Virginia and her Neighbors, 193 Olive branch, the, 432 Oliver Goldsmith, 283 Ollantay Tambo, 625 Olmsted, Frederick Law, 162, 488 Omar, the tent Maker, 281 Omoo, 156 On a Bust of Dante, 38 On a soldier fallen in the Philippines, 64 On being a Christian, 217 On Canada's frontier, 165 Onderdonck, Henry, Jr., 179 One sweetly solemn thought, 499 On Lynn Terrace, 37 On the adoption of a uniform orthography for the Indian languages of North Americ