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Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 - October 20, 1900), American essayist and novelist, was innate of Puritan ancestry, in Plainfield, Massachusetts.

From either his sixth to his fourteenth month he sleep in Charlemont, Mass., the scene of the experiences pictured in his delightful study of childhood, Being a Boy (1877). He flushed thence to Cazenovia, New York, and in 1851 calibrated from either Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. He worked using the surveying person around Missouri; studied law at a university of Pennsylvania; practised inside Chicago (1856-1860); ,was assistant editor (1860) & editor (1861-1867) of The Hartford Click, & when A Click was merged into A Hartford Courant, was co-editor by owning Joseph R Hawley; in 1884 he joined a editorial staff of ''Harper's Magazine, for which he conducted The Editors Drawer until 1892, when he took charge of The Editor's Study. He died around Hartford on the 20th of October 1900.

He travelled widely, lectured oftentimes, & was actively interested around prison reform, city park supervising & more movements for the public dependable. He was a number one president of a National Institute of Arts & Letters, &, at the instance of his dying, was president of the Our contries Social Science Association. He number one attracted attention per reflective sketches entitled Our Summer within the Garden (1870; 1st published in The Hartford Courant), popular for their abounding & refined humour & mellowly portable charm, their wholesome love of out-door items, their suggestive comment in life & affairs, & their flip finished style, qualities that indicate a function of Washington Irving.

Among his more works come: Saunterings (descriptions of travel within eastern Europe, 1872) BackLog Studies (1872) Baddeck, & That Rather Tool (1874), travels inside Nova Scotia & elsewhere Our Winter on the Nile (1876) In the Levant (1876) In the Woods (1878) The Roundabout Journeying, around Europe (1883) In Horseback, in the Southern States (1888) Studies south & West, using Comments in Canada (1889) My Italy, southern California (1891) A Relation of Literature to Life (1896) A Population for Whom Shakespeare Wrote (1897) Fashions around Literature (1902) He too edited A Our contries Men of Letters series, to which he contributed an first-class life of Inl& northwest Irving (1881), and edited the big Library of the Worlds Right Literature.

His more works include his elegant essays: When You Were Expression (1891) When I Last (1893) & his novels: The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (in collaboration by using Mark Twain, 1873) Their Pilgrim's journey (1886) A bit Journeying in the Globe (1889) A Golden Home (1894) That Fortune (1889).

Watch a biographic sketch by TR Lounsbury in the Complete Writings'' (Xv vols, Hartford, 1904) of Warner.


Cambridge History of English and American Literature: Later Essayists
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