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    Nathaniel Parker Willis (January 20, 1806 – January 20, 1867), also known as N. P. Willis, was an American writer, poet and editor who worked with several...
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  • (1780–1870), American editor and publisher in Boston and Maine Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867), American author, poet and editor This disambiguation...
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    Retrieved 2020-02-14. Willis, Nathaniel Parker (1845). The Poems, Sacred, Passionate, and Humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis. Clark & Austin. Wikimedia...
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    living and working at Idlewild, the home of writer and publisher Nathaniel Parker Willis. Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina...
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    shortness of breath, chest pains, coughing and spitting up blood. Nathaniel Parker Willis, a friend of Poe's and an influential editor, published an announcement...
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    City. The phrase was coined in 1844 by American poet and author Nathaniel Parker Willis. Soon, the term came to be used to describe the upper circles not...
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  • magazine was founded as The National Press by poet and essayist Nathaniel Parker Willis and New York Evening Mirror newspaper editor George Pope Morris...
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    He married Hannah Parker in 1803; children included Nathaniel Parker Willis, Sara Willis Parton (Fanny Fern), Richard Storrs Willis, Lucy Douglas (born...
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    saw the book as a blend of truth and satire. Melville's friend Nathaniel Parker Willis, reviewing the book in November 29 Home Journal, found it "a very...
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    visit to Nathaniel Parker Willis in New York, wanting to see the now eight-years old Imogen again. Willis's second wife, Cornelia Grinnell Willis, who had...
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  • Grinnell Willis (1848-1930) was a textile merchant and philanthropist, and the son of noted poet Nathaniel Parker Willis. Willis founded and ran Grinnell...
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    Her older brother Nathaniel Parker Willis became a notable journalist and magazine owner. Her younger brother Richard Storrs Willis became a musician...
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    Clement Clarke Moore, Francis Parkman, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Nathaniel Parker Willis. Darley was born on June 23, 1822, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
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    became a cause célèbre and the well-known writer Nathaniel Parker Willis was caught in the middle. Willis defended Catherine, who maintained her innocence...
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  • sculptor, buried together with her companion, Abby Adeline Manning. Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867), publisher, editor, author, poet Joseph Winlock (1826–1875)...
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    He was also a music critic and journal editor. Willis, whose siblings included Nathaniel Parker Willis and Fanny Fern, was born on February 10, 1819,...
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    the Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845, as an "advance copy". Nathaniel Parker Willis, editor of the Mirror, introduced it as "unsurpassed in English...
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  • Military Academy at West Point. Poe first offered the poem to Nathaniel Parker Willis, who wrote in an edition of "The Editor's Table" of the American...
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    National Woman's Press Association; Hagar in the Wilderness by Nathaniel Parker Willis, the highest-paid magazine writer of his day; and Hagar's Farewell...
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    American democracy, a parody of the work of Charles Dickens and Nathaniel Parker Willis, and is also understood as a critique on 19th-century medical practices...
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    substantial influence in the literary scene which writer and editor Nathaniel Parker Willis acknowledged in a letter to Fields: "Your press is the announcing-room...
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    engravings Bartlett produced were published uncolored with a text by Nathaniel Parker Willis as American Scenery; or Land, Lake, and River: Illustrations of...
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    believed Poe and Osgood first met in person when introduced by Nathaniel Parker Willis in March 1845 when Osgood had been separated from (but not divorced...
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  • Mississippi Idlewild, a home in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, built by Nathaniel Parker Willis Dr. Franklin King House-Idlewild, Eden, North Carolina, listed...
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    an annual gift book that collected essays, stories, and poetry. Nathaniel Parker Willis edited its first edition, released in the fall of 1844. For a time...
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    included Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Washington Irving, James Kirke Paulding, William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Frances...
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    and steamboats, as well as a telegraph office and large library. Nathaniel Parker Willis, one of the Knickerbocker writers, enjoyed the time he spent here...
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    Poe did not remain in close contact with her brother Edgar, with Nathaniel Parker Willis writing to him, "You seem as neglectful of your sister as I am...
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    serving as a pallbearer at the funeral of friend and publisher Nathaniel Parker Willis on January 24, 1867, Lowell decided to produce another collection...
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    entertained by telling stories to his admirers. As the writer and editor Nathaniel Parker Willis wrote, "With his cigar and his Spanish eyes, he talks Typee and...
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