Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 - October 20, 1900), American essayist and novelist, was born of Puritan ancestry, in Plainfield, Massachusetts. September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years). ... 1829 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... 1900 is a common year starting on Monday. ... The Puritans were members of a group of radical Protestants which developed in England after the Reformation. ... Plainfield is a town located in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. ...

From his sixth to his fourteenth year he lived in Charlemont, Mass., the scene of the experiences pictured in his delightful study of childhood, Being a Boy (1877). He removed thence to Cazenovia, New York, and in 1851 graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. He worked with a surveying party in Missouri; studied law at the university of Pennsylvania; practised in Chicago (1856-1860); ,was assistant editor (1860) and editor (1861-1867) of The Hartford Press, and after The Press was merged into The Hartford Courant, was co-editor with Joseph R Hawley; in 1884 he joined the 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 in Hartford on the 20th of October 1900. Charlemont is a town located in Franklin County, Massachusetts. ... Cazenovia, New York is a community in upstate New York. ... Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college located in Clinton, New York. ... Clinton is the name of some places in the U.S. state of New York: Clinton, Clinton County, New York Clinton, Dutchess County, New York Clinton, Oneida County, New York Clinton also is a name used to refer to the Hells Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. ... Missouri, named after the Missouri Siouan Indian tribe meaning canoe, is a Midwestern state in the United States with Jefferson City as its capital. ... The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn or UPenn, although the former is the preferred and recognized nickname of the University) is a private, nonsectarian, research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... Joseph Roswell Hawley ( October 31, 1826 - March 17, 1905), American political leader, was born at Stewartsville, Richmond county, North Carolina, where his father, a native of Connecticut, was pastor of a Baptist church. ... An issue of Harpers Magazine from 1905 Another issue, from November 2004 Harpers Magazine (or simply Harpers) is a monthly general-interest magazine covering literature, politics, culture, and the arts. ...

He travelled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and, at the time of his death, was president of the American Social Science Association. He first attracted attention by the reflective sketches entitled My Summer in a Garden (1870; first published in The Hartford Courant), popular for their abounding and refined humour and mellow personal charm, their wholesome love of out-door things, their suggestive comment on life and affairs, and their delicately finished style, qualities that suggest the work of Washington Irving. Washington Irving Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early 19th century. ...

Among his other works are:

• Saunterings (descriptions of travel in eastern Europe, 1872)
• BackLog Studies (1872)
• Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing (1874), travels in Nova Scotia and elsewhere
• My Winter on the Nile (1876)
• In the Levant (1876)
• In the Wilderness (1878)
• A Roundabout Journey, in Europe (1883)
• On Horseback, in the Southern States (1888)
• Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada (1889)
• Our Italy, southern California (1891)
• The Relation of Literature to Life (1896)
• The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote (1897)
• Fashions in Literature (1902)

He also edited The American Men of Letters series, to which he contributed an excellent biography of Washington Irving (1881), and edited a large Library of the Worlds Best Literature.

His other works include his graceful essays:

• As We Were Saying (1891)
• As We Go (1893)

And his novels:

• The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (in collaboration with Mark Twain, 1873)
• Their Pilgrimage (1886)
• A Little Journey in the World (1889)
• The Golden House (1894)
• That Fortune (1889).

See the biographical sketch by TR Lounsbury in the Complete Writings (15 vols, Hartford, 1904) of Warner. Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was a famous and popular American humorist, writer and lecturer. ...

External links

• Charles Dudley Warner page with links to his works available on the web.

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