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The Knickerbocker magazine was a subsidiary of the group founded in 1833 by Charles Fenno Hoffman and was contributed to by many Knickerbocker group members across the early to mid 19th century. The magazine was considered by Perry Miller to be “the most influential literary organ in America” by 1840 under its editor Lewis Gaylord Clark. [ 10 ]
The Knickerbocker or New-York Monthly Magazine (1833–1865), a literary magazine founded by Charles Fenno Hoffman; The Knickerbocker Gang, a series of children's books by Austrian writer Thomas Brezina, and a TV series based on the books; Knickerbocker News, a newspaper in Albany, New York published between 1843 and 1988
The fictional "Diedrich Knickerbocker" from the frontispiece of A History of New-York, a wash drawing by Felix O. C. Darley. Diedrich Knickerbocker is an American literary character who originated from Washington Irving's first novel, A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker (1809).
At the time, "Knickerbocker" was a term for Manhattan's aristocracy. [9] Knickerbocker was also an imaginary personage created by Washington Irving to promote his new book at the time, A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. The work was a satire of both history books and the politics of the time.
Pages in category "Knickerbocker Group" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Stanley Thomas Williams and Tremaine McDowell, editors of the 1927 edition of A History of New York, called this the most intelligent review of the book since its release in 1809. [9] The book loosely inspired the musical Knickerbocker Holiday. In 2005, reviewer Christine Wade described the book as satire and not being a modern novel. [10]
He published the Knickerbocker Sketch-Book (1850), including some of his own essays, and Knick-Knacks from an Editor's Table (1852). [5] He stepped down from The Knickerbocker in late 1861 to launch in March 1862 a competing magazine, Clark's Knickerbocker , which he intended to be free of "the spirit of abolition" that had become part of The ...
His books were popular in Europe, and Heartbreak Hill (1908) was translated into German. [8] Herman Knickerbocker Vielé died from heart disease in New York on December 14, 1908. [9] One critic wrote that his death "robbed America not only of one of her most brilliant novelists, but of a poet of fine flavour". [10]