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Romanticising the highwayman Dick Turpin, it succeeds enough for the author to take up full-time writing. [1] Bentley also publishes Edward Bulwer-Lytton's anonymous popular novel The Last Days of Pompeii in the same year. June 10 – The Scottish philosopher and writer Thomas Carlyle moves to Cheyne Row (Carlyle's House) in London.
Editors at Merriam spend about an hour a day looking at print sources, from books and newspapers to less formal publications, like advertisements and product packaging, to study the uses of individual words and choose things that should be preserved in the citation file.
It is seen as a precursor of full-length mystery fiction (with its introduction of the police detective Sergeant Cuff) and the psychological thriller. [3] January 9 – John William De Forest, writing for The Nation, calls for a more specifically American literature; [4] the essay's title, "The Great American Novel", is the first known use of ...
Webster's Beginning Book of Facts., Dennis, John (1978), Merriam-Webster. [151] Webster's Family Encyclopedia. Ottenheimer Publishers. 1989–. [152] Webster's New World Encyclopedia. Prentice Hall. 1992. [153] Webster's New World Encyclopedia College Edition. Prentice Hall. 1993. [154] Webster's New World Encyclopedia: Pocket Edition. Prentice ...
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The third edition was published in 2000 on Merriam-Webster's website as a subscription service. Planning for a Fourth edition of the Unabridged began with a 1988 memo from Merriam-Webster president William Llewellyn but was repeatedly deferred in favor of updates to the more lucrative Collegiate. Work on a full revision finally began in 2009.
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In 1952, Benton started preparations for the fifteenth edition. Britannica acquired Merriam-Webster in 1964 and Compton's Encyclopedia as well in the early 1960s. [2] [3] Benton died in 1973, before the fifteenth edition was published in 1974.