Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
These three works made up Irving's "western" series of books and were written partly as a response to criticism that his time in England and Spain had made him more European than American. [71] Critics such as James Fenimore Cooper and Philip Freneau felt that he had turned his back on his American heritage in favor of English aristocracy. [ 72 ]
The first American reviews were the result of well-placed advance publicity, performed on Irving's behalf by his friend Henry Brevoort. Three days after the book's release, Brevoort placed an anonymous review in the New-York Evening Post, lauding The Sketch Book and making it clear to readers that it was Irving's work:
Irving was in Spain researching a follow-up to his biography of Christopher Columbus, A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada. [2] Wilkie travelled there following a nervous breakdown during which he had stopped working. The two men became friends and Wilkie was able to produce several works set during the Peninsular War, which
Works by Washington Irving (3 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Washington Irving" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
Pages in category "Works by Washington Irving" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
This novel was seen to inspire other similar works of historical fiction which became popular in the 1840s. [19] Some of the subsequent notable works attributed to Washington Irving (under the pseudonym Diedrich Knickerbocker) include: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (1819-1820) Rip Van Winkle (1819) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820)
The Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. is a collection of nine observational letters written by American writer Washington Irving under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. The letters first appeared in the November 15, 1802, edition of the New York Morning Chronicle, a political-leaning newspaper partially owned by New Yorker Aaron Burr and edited by Irving's brother Pet
Salmagundi; or The Whim-whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. & Others, commonly referred to as Salmagundi, was a 19th-century satirical periodical created and written by American writer Washington Irving, his oldest brother William, and James Kirke Paulding. The collaborators produced twenty issues at irregular intervals between ...