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SHEA, JOHN DAWSON GILMARY (1824-1892), b. New York, N. Y. Editor, historian. Discovery and
Exploration of the Mississippi Valley, History of the Catholic Missions among the Indian Tribes of the United
States, History of the Catholic Church in the United States, and many other historical and religious studies.
SHERMAN, FRANK DEMPSTER (1860-1916), b. Peekskill, N.Y. Professor of architecture, poet.
Madrigals and Catches, Lyrics for a Lute, Lyrics of Joy.
SHILLABER, BENJAMIN P. ("Mrs. Partington") (1814-1890), b. Portsmouth, N. H. Humorist of Mrs.
Malaprop's style, mistaking words of similar sounds but dissimilar sense. _Life and Sayings of Mrs.
Partington_, Partingtonian Patchwork, Ike and his Friend.
SMITH, SAMUEL F. (1808-1895), b. Boston, Mass. Clergyman. Author of our national poem, America. Of
him, Holmes wrote, "Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith."
SPARKS, JARED (1789-1866), b. Willington, Conn. Unitarian minister and historian. Diplomatic
Correspondence of the American Revolution, The Writings of George Washington, The Works of Benjamin
Franklin.
SPOFFORD, HARRIET PRESCOTT (1835- ), b. Calais, Maine. Novelist, poet. The Amber Gods and Other
Stories, New England Legends, Poems.
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STEDMAN, EDMUND CLARENCE (1833-1908), b. Hartford, Conn. Poet, critic. One of America's fairest
critics. Did valuable work in compiling and criticizing modern English and American literature. A Victorian
Anthology, An American Anthology, Victorian Poets, Poets of America. Co-editor of Library of American
Literature in eleven large octavo volumes.
STOCKTON, FRANK R. (1834-1902), b. Philadelphia, Pa. Novelist and humorist. His novels have a farcical
humor, due to ridiculous situations and absurdities, treated in a mock-serious vein. _The Lady or the Tiger?_
_The Late Mrs. Null_, _The Casting away of Mrs. Leeks and Mrs. Aleshine_, The Hundredth Man.
STODDARD, CHARLES WARREN (1843-1909), b. Rochester, N.Y. Author, educator, traveler. South Sea
Idyls, Lepers of Molokai, Poems.
STODDARD, RICHARD HENRY (1825-1903), b. Hingham, Mass. Journalist, editor, poet. Songs of
Summer, _Abraham Lincoln: a Horatian Ode_, _The Lion's Cub_.
STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819-1895), b. Salem, Mass. Sculptor, author. Roba di Roma, or Walks
and Talks about Rome, Poems, Conversations in a Studio, Excursions in Art and Letters.
SUMNER, CHAS. (1811-1874), b. Boston, Mass. Noted anti-slavery statesman. His published speeches and
orations fill fifteen volumes.
TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825-1878), b. Kennett Square, Chester Co., Pa. Extensive traveler, wrote twelve
different volumes of travels, the first being _Views Afoot, or Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff_ (1846).
He wrote also much poetry. Among the best of his shorter poems are The Bedouin Song, Nubia, and _The
Song of the Camp. Lars: a Pastoral of Norway_ is his best long poem. The work by which he will probably
remain longest known in literature is his excellent translation of Goethe's Faust.
THAXTER, CELIA LAIGHTON (1836-1894), b. Portsmouth, N.H. Spent most of life upon Isles of Shoals.
Artist, author. Poems (Appledore Edition, 1896). Best single poem, The Sandpiper.
THOMAS, EDITH MATILDA (1854- ), b. Chatham, Ohio. Poet. _A New Year's Masque, A Winter
Swallow, and Other Verse, Fair Shadow Land, Lyrics and Sonnets_.
TICKNOR, GEORGE (1791-1871), b. Boston, Mass. A History of Spanish Literature.
TORREY, BRADFORD (1843-1912), b. Weymouth, Mass. Nature writer. Birds in the Bush, The Footpath
Way, Footing it in Franconia. Editor of Thoreau's Journal.
TOURGEE, ALBION W. (1838-1905), b. Williamsfield, Ohio. Educated in New York. Soldier, judge,
novelist of the reconstruction period. _A Fool's Errand_, Bricks without Straw.
TROWBRIDGE, JOHN TOWNSEND (1827-1916), b. Ogden, N.Y. Editor, novelist, poet, juvenile writer.
My Own Story (biography) Among his stories for young people are The Drummer Boy, The Prize Cup, _The
Tide-Mill Stories._ Best known poem, The Vagabonds.
VAN DYKE, HENRY (1852- ), b. Germantown, Pa. Clergyman, professor, essayist, poet. The Builders and
Other Poems, _Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things_, The Story of the Other Wise Man. An
interesting, optimistic philosopher, and lover of nature, whose works deserve the widest reading.
WARD, ARTEMUS. See BROWNE, CHARLES F.
WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911), b. Boston, Mass. Novelist. The Gates Ajar, The
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Story of Avis, A Singular Life.
WARNER, CHARLES DUDLEY (1829-1900), b. Plainfield, Mass. Traveler, journalist, essayist. Wrote the
_Editor's Drawer_ and _Editor's Study of Harper's Magazine. My Summer in a Garden_ and Backlog Studies
are delightful for their subtle humor and style. He wrote many entertaining books of travel, such as
Saunerings, In the Levant, My Winter on the Nile, _Baddeck and that Sort of Thing._ He wrote The Gilded
Age in collaboration with Mark Twain.
WEBSTER, NOAH (1758-1843), b. Hartford, Conn. Philologist. Published in 1783 his famous Speller,
which superseded The New England Primer, and which almost deserves to be called "literature by reason of
its admirable fables." More than sixty million copies of this Speller have been sold.
WESTCOTT, EDWARD NOYES (1847-1898), b. Syracuse, N. Y. Banker, author of one remarkable novel
which was published posthumously, David Harum, a story of central New York.
WHARTON, EDITH (1862- ), b. New York, N. Y. Essayist, novelist. Her fiction deals largely with modern
society problems. She treats subtle psychological questions with especial skill in the short story. The Valley of
Decision, Crucial Instances, The House of Mirth, The Fruit of the Tree, _Italian Backgrounds._
WHIPPLE, EDWIN PERCY (1819-1886), b. Gloucester, Mass. Critic, essayist. Essays and Reviews,
American Literature and Other Papers, _Recollections of Eminent Men._
WHITCHER, FRANCES ("Widow Bedott") (1811-1852), b. Whitestown, N. Y. Humorist. _The Widow
Bedott Papers._
WHITNEY, ADELINE BUTTON TRAIN (1824-1906), b. Boston, Mass. Poet, novelist, and writer of
juvenile stories. _Faith Gartney's Girlhood, We Girls, Boys at Chequasset, Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's
Life, Poems._
WIGGIN, KATE DOUGLAS (Mrs. Riggs) (1857- ), b. Philadelphia, Pa. Novelist and writer on kindergarten
subjects. Author of _The Bird's Christmas Carol, Timothy's Quest, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Penelope's
Progress, A Cathedral Courtship._ Pathos, humor, and sympathy for the poor, the weak, and the helpless are
characteristic qualities of her work. There are few better children's stories than the first two mentioned.
WILLIAMS, ROGER (1604?-1683), b. probably in London. Founder of Rhode Island. The first great
preacher of "soul liberty" in America. The Bloody Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience Discussed,
The Bloody Tenent yet More Bloody.
WILLIS, N.P. (1806-1867), b. Portland, Maine. Traveler, prose writer, poet, editor. While his work has
proved ephemeral, he taught many writers of his day the necessity of artistic finish in their prose. His prose
Letters from under a Bridge, and his poems, Parrhasius and Unseen Spirits, may be mentioned.
WINSOR, JUSTIN (1831-1897), b. Boston, Mass. Librarian at Harvard, historian, editor of Narrative and
Critical History of America. Author of _The Mississippi Basin: the Struggle in America between England and
France, 1697-1763_; _The Westward Movement, 1763-1798_; _Reader's Handbook of the American
Revolution_, Christopher Columbus.
WINTER, WILLIAM (1836- ), b. Gloucester, Mass. Dramatic editor of the New York Tribune from 1865 to
1909. Edited numbers of plays. Author of _Shakespeare's England_, Gray Days and Gold, Life and Art of
Edwin Booth, Wanderers (poems). [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]