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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.) 13 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mitchell, Silas Weir 1830- (search)
Mitchell, Silas Weir 1830- Physician and author; born in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 15. 1830; was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated at the Jefferson Medical College in 1850. He began practice in Philadelphia, and later became renowned as a physiologist, but more especially as a neurologist. In 1865 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and for many years was identified with the leading scientific societies of the United States and Europe. Dr. Mispecially as a neurologist. In 1865 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and for many years was identified with the leading scientific societies of the United States and Europe. Dr. Mitchell was also widely known as a poet and novelist. His publications include Treatises on Neurology; Serpent poisons; Comparative Physiology; many papers on neurological subjects; Hepzibah Guinnes; Far in the forest; Characteristics; Hugh Wynne, free Quaker; Adventures of Francois, etc.
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)
nt. But the later historical romance is best studied in the work of Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1913) of Pennsylvania, who, on the advice of Oliver Wendell Holmnges of the medical profession, and Constance Trescott (1905), considered by Dr. Mitchell his best—constructed novel and certainly his most thorough—going study of a ge and truthful chronicle of the effects of the Civil War in Pennsylvania, but Mitchell's best work belongs to the Revolutionary and Washington cycle: Hugh Wynne freeed City a novel of the second administration of President Washington (1908). Dr. Mitchell's own favourite among his books, The adventures of Francois, Foundling, Thieity, and Washington, though drawn, like Philadelphia, as much to the life as Dr. Mitchell could draw him, is a demigod still. By the time The Red City appeared itsg to Paul Leicester Ford's Janice Meredith, which as a novel competed with S. Weir Mitchell's Hugh Wynne. See Book III Chap XI The manager thought there was ce
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)
dy), 526 Miss Bellard's inspiration, 84 Missionary Herald, the, 155 Missions and missionaries of California, the, 139 Missions from the modern view, 213 Mississippi Basin, the. 187 Mississippi Valley in the Civil War, the, 193 Miss Multon, 271 Missouri (University), 6 Miss Ravenel's Convcrsion from Secession to Loyalty, 76 n. Mitchell, Donald Grant, 69, 110-113 Mitchell, John Ames, 22 Mitchell, Langdon, 276, 288, 294 Mitchell, Samuel L., 179, 445, 446 Mitchell, Silas Weir, 90-91, 287 Mittelberger, Gottlieb, 577 Moby Dick, 92, 156 Modern English, 475 Modern instance, a, 79, 311 Mod. Lang. Ass. Pub., 459, 480 n. Modern language notes, 459 Modern painters, 489 Modest inquiry into the nature and necessity of paper currency, a, 426 Modjeska, 48, 49 Moerder aus Liebe, a, 605 Mogulesko, 608 Mohun, 67 Mollhausen, Balduin, 580 Monetary situation, the, 440 Money, 441 Money and banking, 440 Money and civilization, 440 Mo