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Lavilla Esther Allen. Esther Saville Allen. M. Catherine Allen. Richard Alsop. Nathaniel Ames (writer) Estelle Mendell Amory. William J. Anderson. Jane Andrews (author) Joseph Kinnicutt Angell.
19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; 24th Pages in category "19th-century American novelists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 504 total ...
1808–1810. Rank. Midshipman. James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonial and indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought him fame and fortune. He lived much of his boyhood and his last fifteen ...
Margaret Jewett Bailey. Margaret L. Bailey. Sarah Lord Bailey. Minnie Willis Baines. Elizabeth Baird (writer) Harriette Woods Baker. Edith Ella Baldwin. Esther E. Baldwin. Martha Violet Ball.
American writers had long looked to European models for inspiration, but whereas the literary breakthroughs of the mid-19th century came from finding distinctly American styles and themes, writers from this period were finding ways of contributing to a flourishing international literary scene, not as imitators but as equals.
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v. t. e. Literature of the 19th century refers to world literature produced during the 19th century. The range of years is, for the purpose of this article, literature written from (roughly) 1799 to 1900. Many of the developments in literature in this period parallel changes in the visual arts and other aspects of 19th-century culture.
In 1884, Mark Twain published what is arguably the most influential Southern novel of the 19th century, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Ernest Hemingway said of the novel, "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." This statement applies even more to Southern literature because of the novel's ...