| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 430 pages) : illustrations, portraits facsimiles |
| Series |
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 73 |
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Dictionary of literary biography (Online)
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Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 73
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| Contents |
Park Benjamin (1809-1864) -- Andrew Bradford (1686-1742) -- William Bradford III (1719-1891) -- Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) -- Orestes A. Brownson (1803-1876) -- Joseph Tinker Buckingham (1779-1861) and Edwin Buckingham (1810-1833) -- William Evans Burton (1804-1860) -- Mathew Carey (1760-1839) -- Stephen Cullen Carpenter (birthdate unkown-1820) -- Lewis Gaylord Clark (1808-1873) -- Joseph Dennie (1768-1812) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) -- Timothy Flint (1780-1840) -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- Sarah Margaret Fuller, Marchesa D'Ossoli (1810-1850) -- William Davis Gallagher (1808-1894) -- William Gibbons (birth and death dates unkown) -- Caroline H. Gilman (1794-1888) -- Louise A. Godey (1804-1878) -- Samuel Griswold Goodrich (Peter Parley) (1793-1860) -- George Rex Graham (1813-1894) -- Sarah Joseph Hale (1788-1879) -- James Hall (1793-1868) -- Henry William Herbert (Frank Forester) (1807-1858) -- William Gibbes Hunt 91791-1833) -- John Inman (1805-1850) -- Washington Irving (1783-1859) -- Caroline M. Kirkland (1801-1864) -- Hugh Swinton Legare (1797-1843) -- George Pope Morris (1802-1864) -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) -- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) -- William Carey Richards (1818-1892) -- George Ripley (1802-1880) -- Lydia H. Sigourney (1791-1865) -- William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) -- John Stuart Skinner (1788-1851) -- Ann Sophia Stephens (1810-1886) -- Thomas Swords (1763-1843) and James Swords (?-1844) -- Isaiah Thomas (1750-1831) -- John Rueben Thompson (1823-1873) -- Tobias Watkins (1780-1855) -- Noah Webster (1758-1843) -- Daniel K. Whitaker (1801-1881) -- Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867) -- Frances Wright (1795-1852) |
| Summary |
Includes essays on American editors and publishers of periodicals having substantial literary content. Provides information on how these early editors and publishers were hampered by distribution problems, in that the raw materials of publishing had to be imported at considerable cost, and the limited amount of advertising in the issues. Provides information on the major publishing centers in eighteenth-century America |
| Notes |
"A Bruccoli Clark Layman book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-365) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
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Journalism & Communications.
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Journalism.
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Journalists.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Riley, Sam G.
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Gale Research Inc
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| LC no. |
88017586 |
| ISBN |
081034551X |
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9780810345515 |
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