Edwin Percy Whipple (March 8, 1819 – June 16, 1886) was an American essayist and critic. He was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1819. For a time...
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Scarlet Letter being published!" She noted that her husband's friend Edwin Percy Whipple, a critic, approached Fields to consider its publication. A signed...
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initiated his most lucrative period as a writer. Hawthorne's friend Edwin Percy Whipple objected to the novel's "morbid intensity" and its dense psychological...
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Misérables at Project Gutenberg – English translation. Review by Edwin Percy Whipple The Atlantic Monthly. July 1862. Les Misérables public domain audiobook...
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perfect" than the author's previous novel. Even so, Boston critic Edwin Percy Whipple simply called it his "greatest work". Hawthorne's friend Herman Melville...
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which a writer can hope for but once in his life." Friend and critic Edwin Percy Whipple noted that, even if Hawthorne had written nothing else, The Marble...
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Dorothy Whipple (1893–1966), English writer of popular fiction Edwin Percy Whipple (1819–1886), American essayist and critic Frances Harriet Whipple Green...
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will-o'-the-wisp genius of Dickens has so long led the public mind". Edwin Percy Whipple from North American Review considered The Tenant "less unpleasant"...
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Atlantic Monthly article entitled "The Genius of Dickens", critic Edwin Percy Whipple declared that Dickens's characters "have a strange attraction to...
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celebration honoring Italian unification on February 23, 1871, featuring Edwin Percy Whipple as a speaker and a poem by Clarke titled "A Hymn for the Celebration...
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cheerful trust" and a "pure and ennobling character". Boston critic Edwin Percy Whipple noted Whittier's moral and ethical tone mingled with sincere emotion...
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Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edwin Percy Whipple. In 1867, he performed the same role after the death of Nathaniel...
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as well as one who showed wit at festivities and celebrations. Edwin Percy Whipple for one considered Holmes to be "a poet of sentiment and passion...
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not fully comprehend the politics of the time.[citation needed] Edwin Percy Whipple criticized the novel in Scribner's Magazine by saying, "'Hard Times'...
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of Spanish Literature. Collins Printer, 1871 "George Ticknor" in: Edwin Percy Whipple, Cyrus Augustus Bartol. Recollections of eminent men: with other...
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reading room and lecture series. Members included James T. Fields and Edwin Percy Whipple. Although the association had a relatively long history, its heyday...
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Elmira some of America's leading writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edwin Percy Whipple, Bayard Taylor, Horace Mann, J.G. Saxe, Oliver Wendel Holmes and...
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Charles Dudley Warner (Co-author of The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today) Edwin Percy Whipple (American essayist and critic) Herve D. Wilkins (organist and composer)...
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short runs as editorial assistants for the magazine in 1848 and Edwin Percy Whipple was its main literary critic for a time. In 1848, after some financial...
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Society for nineteen years and was a member for more than 60 years. Edwin Percy Whipple referred to Savage as; "the soul of integrity," and says" "It is...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Charles Sumner Virginia F. Townsend Mark Twain Edwin Percy Whipple James Redpath Elias Nason. A gazetteer of the state of Massachusetts...
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puffing", heavy praise for works that did not necessarily merit it. Edwin Percy Whipple chidingly called Duyckinck "the most Bostonian of New-Yorkers". William...
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was the heading of an article in the Boston Transcript, written by Edwin Percy Whipple, the essayist, in which he says:— "The most notable characteristic...
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take a permanent place among the records of literary friendship." Edwin Percy Whipple in The North American Review greeted it as "a book which is destined...
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Eminent Men: With Other Papers (Boston: Ticknor and Company; with Edwin Percy Whipple; 1886) Shook, John R. (2012). The dictionary of early American philosophers...
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Louisa May Alcott, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Edwin Percy Whipple, and James T. Fields. For several years, she was instructed at home...
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English Stage (1832). A page is devoted to Love in Several Masques in Edwin Percy Whipple's review of a collection of Fielding's works, which calls the play...
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dogs' home thought appropriate for Ogden by several conspirators Lord Percy Whipple, the man who fights Piccadilly Jim in a club Monty Bodkin, a member...
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discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anaemia" 1934 George H. Whipple Ashland, New Hampshire, U.S. "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy...
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Archived from the original on September 5, 2017. Retrieved September 4, 2017. Whipple, Scott (October 18, 2005). "A $3m gift". The New Britain Herald. Archived...
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