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Rip Van Winkle – A henpecked husband with an aversion to "profitable labour" and a meek, easygoing resident of the village who wanders off to the mountains and meets strange men playing ninepins; Dame Van Winkle – Rip Van Winkle's cantankerous and nagging wife; Rip Van Winkle Jr. – Rip Van Winkle's ne'er-do-well son
The first installment, containing "Rip Van Winkle", was an enormous success, and the rest of the work was equally successful; it was issued in 1819–1820 in seven installments in New York and in two volumes in London ("The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" appeared in the sixth issue of the New York edition and the second volume of the London edition ...
The tale of a henpecked husband who sleeps away twenty years in the Catskills – a story allegedly found among the papers of Irving's fictional historian Diedrich Knickerbocker. It is explained that Rip Van Winkle had been put under a spell after helping the spectre of Hendrick Hudson and his crew. "English Writers on America" July 31, 1819
Joseph Jefferson playing the role of old Rip Van Winkle in 1869. By the time he came to Palm Beach in the 1890s, he was a world-renowned actor whose fans included Queen Victoria.
Rip Van Winkle is a 1910 American silent short drama produced by the Thanhouser Company. The film is an adaptation of Washington Irving's 1819 short story "Rip Van Winkle" with some differences in the plot. The film focuses on the title character whose idle life is made difficult by his cantankerous wife.
Van Dien adds, "Washington Irving went around and captured some of them," including Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, which he wrote and published in 1819 and 1820, respectively ...
"Rip Van Winkle" Washington Irving: A man falls asleep on a mountain side and wakes twenty years in the future. He finds he has been forgotten, his wife has died and his daughter is no longer a child. [2] 1838 "The Galoshes of Fortune" Hans Christian Andersen
In Washington Irving's story "Rip Van Winkle," the titular character wanders off into the woods, gets drunk, and wakes up 20 years down the line. Hopefully, he hadn't invested with Thomas Farr ...