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He edited the works of Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Shepard wrote a biography of Bronson Alcott , the father of writer Louisa May Alcott and one of the foremost Transcendentalists : Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Bronson Alcott , published by Little, Brown in 1937, [ 5 ] for which he won the 1938 ...
Mackinac Island Press, [1] is an American publisher of children's books, with an initial book called Has Anyone Seen Christmas? The book was featured across the country by Barnes & Noble and featured on Fox & Friends morning show, the Chicago Tribune, Associated Press and other media outlets. The book has been turned into a float for America's ...
His younger sister, Elizabeth S. Wadsworth, married firstly Arthur Post in 1875, and secondly in 1889, as a widow, Arthur Smith-Barry, 1st Baron Barrymore, becoming Lady Barrymore. His paternal grandfather, James Wadsworth, and his grandfather's brother, William Wadsworth, moved from Durham, Connecticut, and were the original settlers of Geneseo.
Father Fox's Pennyrhymes, children's book of poetry by Clyde Watson, with illustrations by her sister, Wendy Watson Wordsworth's Complete Poetical Works...New York Thomas Y. Crowell Company Publishers (The Complete Poetical works of William Wordsworth with an introduction by John Morley dated 1888)
Title page illustration for an 1864 edition of Tales of a Wayside Inn. Tales of a Wayside Inn is a collection of poems by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.The book, published in 1863, depicts a group of people at the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts, as each tells a story in the form of a poem.
The book often alludes to and quotes from German writers such as Heinrich Heine and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. [18] Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1796) was a likely model for the book. [17] The book's descriptions of Germany would later inspire its use as a companion travel guide for American tourists in that country. [19]
Evangeline was published in book form on November 1, 1847 by William D. Ticknor & Co., [9] and by 1857 it had sold nearly 36,000 copies. [10] During this time, Longfellow's literary payment was at its peak; for Evangeline , he received "a net of twenty-five and sixteenths per cent" royalties, believed to be an all-time high for a poet. [ 11 ]
Frank Howard Wadsworth (November 26, 1915 – January 5, 2022) was an American forester, conservationist and researcher. He made important scientific contributions to forestry, through his work in Puerto Rico where he lived from 1942 until his death.