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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 194 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 112 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 60 0 Browse Search
Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters 56 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 52 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 51 1 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.) 44 0 Browse Search
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 32 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book 28 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 21 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Astoria, (search)
Astoria, A city in Oregon. at the mouth of the Columbia River, founded in 1810 by John Jacob Astor (q. v.) as a station for his fur-trade. It is the subject of a picturesque descriptive work entitled Astoria, by Washington Irving (1836). lrving never visited the station, but wrote from documents furnished by Astor. and from recollections of another Northwestern fur-trading post. In 1900 the population was 8,381. See Oregon.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bonneville, Benjamin L. E., 1795-1878 (search)
Bonneville, Benjamin L. E., 1795-1878 Explorer; born in France about 1795; was graduated at West Point in 1815; engaged in explorations in the Rocky Mountains in 1831-36. Washington Irving edited his journal entitled Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West. He served throughout the Mexican War, and was wounded at the battle of Churubusco. In 1865 he was brevetted brigadier-general for long and faithful service. He died at Fort Smith, Ark., June 12, 1878.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888 (search)
Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888 Designer and painter; born in Philadelphia June 23, 1822; evinced a taste for drawing at an early age, and while a lad in a mercantile house spent his leisure time in sketching. For some of these he was offered a handsome sum, and this induced him to choose art as a life pursuit. He spent several years in Philadelphia, always living by his pencil, and in 1848 he went to New York, where he made admirable illustrations for some of Irving's humorous works. Among these were The legend of Sleepy hollow and Rip Van Winkle. These works procured for him the reputation, at home and abroad, as a leader in the art of outline illustrations. He illustrated a great many books and made numerous admirable designs for bank-notes. For Cooper's works he made 500 illustrations. More than sixty of them were engraved on steel. He executed four large works ordered by Prince Napoleon while in this country. These were: Emigrants attacked by Indians on the pr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Garfield, James Abram 1831-1881 (search)
claim of France to the vast region stretching from the Alleghany to the Rocky Mountains, from the Rio Grande and the Gulf to the farthest springs of the Missouri. I will not follow further the career of the great explorers. Enough has been said to exhibit the spirit and character of their work. I would I were able to inspire the young men of this country with a desire to read the history of these stirring days of discovery that opened up to Europe the mysteries of this New World. As Irving has well said of their work: It was poetry put into action; it was the knight-errantry of the Old World carried into the depths of the American wilderness. The personal adventures; the feats of individual prowess; the picturesque descriptions of steel-clad cavaliers, with lance and helm and prancing steed, glittering through the wilderness of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and the prairies of the far West——would seem to us mere fictions of romance did they not come to us in the matter-of-fact n
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hall of fame, (search)
tober, 1900, a jury of 100 persons was appointed to invite and pass upon nominations for the first fifty names. The number of names submitted reached 252, of which twenty-nine received fifty-one (the minimum) or more votes. These were, therefore, declared eligible The following are the names, with the number of votes, which were accepted. The remaining twenty-one are to be selected in 1902: George Washington, 97; Abraham Lincoln, 96; Daniel Webster, 96; Benjamin Franklin, 94; Ulysses S. Grant, 92; John Marshall, 91; Thomas Jefferson, 90; Ralph Waldo Emerson, 87; Henry W. Longfellow, 85; Robert Fulton, 85; Washington Irving, 83; Jonathan Edwards, 81; Samuel F. B. Morse, 80; David G. Farragut, 79; Henry Clay, 74; Nathaniel Hawthorne, 73; George Peabody, 72; Robert E. Lee, 69; Peter Cooper, 69; Eli Whit ney, 67; John J. Audubon, 67; Horace Mann, 66; Henry Ward Beecher, 66; James Kent, 65; Joseph Story, 64; John Adams, 61; William E. Channing, 58; Gilbert Stuart, 52; Asa Gray, 51.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hill, David Jayne 1850- (search)
Hill, David Jayne 1850- Author; born in Plainfield, N. J., June 10, 1850; graduated at Bucknell University in 1874; was president of that institution in 1879-88, and of the University of Rochester in 1888-96, and became first assistant Secretary of State Oct. 1, 1898. His publications include Life of Washington Irving; Life of William Cullen Bryant; Principles and fallacies of socialism; International justice, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Irving, Washington 1783-1859 (search)
Irving, Washington 1783-1859 Author; born in New York City, April 3, 1783. His father was a Scotchman, his mother an English- Washington Irving. woman. He engaged in literature while yet a youth, and was in Europe for his health in 1804-06.Washington Irving. woman. He engaged in literature while yet a youth, and was in Europe for his health in 1804-06. In 1807 he published, The old Church at Sleepy hollow. in connection with his brother Peter and James K. Paulding, Salmagundi, and in 1808, his Knickerbocker's history of New York. After editing a magazine during the War of 1812-15, he went tod a very large sale. His last work was a Life of Washington, in 5 volumes, completed a few months before his death. Mr. Irving never married. The honorary degree of Ll.D. was conferred upon him by Harvard College, Oxford University, in England, ow brook, near it, is the bridge where Brom Bones, the supposed headless horseman, hurled the pumpkin at the frightened Ichabod, and drove him from the neighborhood and Katrina van Tassell forever. Mr. Irving died in Irvington, N. Y., Nov. 28, 1859.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Irwin, Jared 1750-1818 (search)
Irwin, Jared 1750-1818 Legislator; born in Sunnyside, home of Washington Irving. Mecklenburg county, N. C., in 1750; removed to Georgia, and served throughout the Revolutionary War; was a member of the State constitutional conventions of 1789, 1795, and 1798; and was elected governor of the State in 1796 and 1806. He died in Union, Ga., March 1, 1818.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Knickerbocker, John -1827 (search)
Knickerbocker, John -1827 Born in Schaghticoke, N. Y., in 1749; inherited the Knickerbocker estates from his uncle, Herman Knickerbocker; served in the American army in the Revolutionary War; after the war represented Rensselaer county in the New York legislature. He died at Schaghticoke in 1827. Washington Irving's use of the name in his Knickerbocker's history of New York has resulted in its being used to describe the typical Dutch New York gentleman. Where New York City is personated in caricatures, the figure is that of Father Knickerbocker.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mundy, Johnson Marchant -1897 (search)
perceiving his talent, carefully instructed him in the manipulation of clay. He remained with Mr. Brown till 1863, when he settled in Rochester, N. Y. He founded the first school in that city for instruction in modelling and drawing from the antique and from life. His work was handicapped by imperfect eyesight, which gradually grew worse until in 1883 his left eye became entirely useless, and a cataract on the right one dimmed his little remaining sight. After twenty years spent in Rochester, he went to Tarrytown, where he made his most important statues. He there gave his services free to the Grand Army veterans, and in two years executed for them a statue, which was cast in bronze, representing a vidette in the volunteer service of the Union army. It has been said that this is the most spirited and graceful military figure in the United States. He next modelled his heroic statue of Washington Irving, the crowning effort of his life. He died in Tarrytown, N. Y., Aug. 16. 1897.
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