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Sidney Clopton Lanier [1] (February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881) was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, [2] worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catching tuberculosis), taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer.
In The Times, a reviewer said, "As to Lovelace's language, he is in a world of his own.It is a carnival of Creole sounds, and this is the deepest ideology of the novel, the display of the power of West Indian speech, the emancipation of the West Indian tongue from the shackles of the English sentence."
According to Charles, the work was mostly Mary's with only a small collaborative effort by him. The book had gone through nine editions by 1825. [23] In 1810 Charles and Mary published another collaboration, Poems for Children. [24] Their writing brought them financial security and vaulted them solidly into the middle class.
Sprague’s father, Samuel . He was born in Boston on October 26, 1791, to Samuel Sprague (1753-1844), and Joanna Thayer (1756-1848). [1] [2] He was a descendant of some of America's founding fathers, including his father, Samuel Sprague (participant in the Boston Tea Party and Revolutionary War), Richard Warren (Mayflower passenger) and the Reverend Peter Hobart and William Sprague of Hingham.
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Florence Van Leer Earle was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the eldest daughter of lawyer George Hussey Earle Sr. and his wife, "Fanny" (née Frances Van Leer). [3] She was the granddaughter of noted abolitionist and philanthropist Thomas Earle and a member of the influential Van Leer family. [4]
One of his poems, originally part of "In April Once", was re-published in a revised form under the name A. W. Percy in Men and Boys, an anonymous anthology of Uranian poetry (privately printed, New York, 1934). There is speculation that Edward M. Slocum, the compiler of the anthology, changed the text of the poem before printing it, and that it ...
In 1641, Samuel Winslow was granted the first patent in North America by the Massachusetts General Court for a new process for making salt. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] See also