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The political backdrop to the story is the 1876 presidential election, a close contest between Tilden and the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes. Tilden won the popular vote, but there was a dispute over the results in Louisiana, Oregon, South Carolina, and Florida.
The first volume appeared in 1872, and the biography was completed in 1874. It was clearly an important work for the late nineteenth century English novelist George Gissing , who wrote, in his diary in January 1888, that, it was "a book I constantly take up for impulse, when work at a standstill". [ 8 ]
1876 Mary Magdalene in the Cave, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg; 1877 Pandora; 1878 Mignon, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; 1878 Graziella, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; 1879 Diana; 1879 Diana Surprised, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; 1880 Portrait of Julia Foster Ward, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. [1] Rinehart published her first mystery novel, The Circular Staircase, in 1908, which introduced the "had I but known" narrative style.
Portrait by Mathew Brady, c. 1870–1880. Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant; April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) was the 18th president of the United States (1869–1877) following his success as military commander in the American Civil War.
February 24 – The stage première of the verse-play Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (published 1867) with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, takes place in Christiania, Norway. [1]
Carson was born in Bellevue, Pennsylvania on March 19, 1876. She died in Rye, New York on September 6, 1959 at the age of 83. [4] [5] A novel based on Carson's life, titled Miss Morgan's Book Brigade, was written by Janet Skeslien Charles and was released in 2024 by Simon & Schuster. [6] [7]
Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian [1] [2]), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. [3]