A dictionary of American authors

Name: A dictionary of American authors
Author: Adams, Oscar Fay

Adams, Oscar Fay

American literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries; Authors, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries

=Duval, John Pope.= _Va._, 1790-_c._ 1855. A Florida lawyer who
published in 1840 A Digest of the Laws of Florida.

=Duyckinck= [dī´kiṉk], =Evert Augustus=. _N. Y._, 1816-1878. A literary
critic of New York city, who with his brother George, _infra_, was the
author of an Encyclopædia of American Literature, first issued in 1855.
Its estimates were sometimes over-indulgent, but on the whole the work
gave a fairly just view of the subject at that time. Other works by
the elder Duyckinck are History of the War for the Union; Biography of
Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America.

=Duyckinck, George Long.= _N. Y._, 1823-1863. Brother of E. A.
Duyckinck, _supra_. A writer of New York city who, beside his share in
The Encyclopædia of American Literature, was the author of Lives of
George Herbert; Bishop Ken; Jeremy Taylor; Bishop Latimer.

=Dwight, Benjamin Woodbridge.= _Ct._, 1816-1889. Grandson of Timothy
Dwight, _infra_. An educator of New York city. The Higher Christian
Education; Modern Philosophy; Modern Philology; Woman’s Higher Culture;
The True Doctrine of Divine Providence; History of the Dwight Family in
America; History of the Strong Family.

=Dwight, Edwin Welles.= _Ms._, 1789-1841. A Congregational clergyman
of Richmond, Massachusetts, whose only publication was a History of
Berkshire County.

=Dwight, Harrison Gray Otis.= _Ms._, 1803-1862. A Congregational
missionary to Armenia. Researches of Smith and Dwight in Armenia;
Christianity Revived in the East; Catalogue of Armenian Literature in
the Middle Ages.

=Dwight, Henry Edwin.= _Ct._, 1797-1832. The eighth son of Timothy
Dwight, _infra_. An educator of New Haven who published Travels in the
North of Germany.

=Dwight, Henry Otis.= _Ty._, 1843- ----. Son of H. G. O. Dwight,
_supra_. A Federal officer during the Civil War, and a correspondent of
the New York Tribune from Constantinople, 1876-79. Turkish Life in War
Times; Constantinople and its Problems. _Rev. Scr._

=Dwight, John Sullivan.= _Ms._, 1813-1893. A distinguished musical
critic of Boston, editor of Dwight’s Journal of Music, an outspoken,
fearless, high-class critical periodical, 1852-81. In earlier life he
spent five years at Brook Farm, and was a contributor to The Dial. He
was the author of a History of Music in Boston and the poem God Save
the State.

=Dwight, Mary Ann.= _Ms._, 1806-1858. A teacher of drawing and painting
in New York city. Grecian and Roman Mythology; Introduction to the
Study of Art; Art as a Branch of Education.

=Dwight, Nathaniel.= _Ms._, 1770-1831. Brother of Timothy Dwight,
_infra_. A physician and clergyman of Rhode Island and Connecticut, who
published the first school geography in America, and was author also of
The Great Question Answered; A Compendious History of the Signers of
the Declaration of Independence. _Bar._

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A dictionary of American authors

Adams, Oscar Fay

American literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries; Authors, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries

=Duval, John Pope.= _Va._, 1790-_c._ 1855. A Florida lawyer who
published in 1840 A Digest of the Laws of Florida.

=Duyckinck= [dī´kiṉk], =Evert Augustus=. _N. Y._, 1816-1878. A literary
critic of New York city, who with his brother George, _infra_, was the
author of an Encyclopædia of American Literature, first issued in 1855.
Its estimates were sometimes over-indulgent, but on the whole the work
gave a fairly just view of the subject at that time. Other works by
the elder Duyckinck are History of the War for the Union; Biography of
Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America.

=Duyckinck, George Long.= _N. Y._, 1823-1863. Brother of E. A.
Duyckinck, _supra_. A writer of New York city who, beside his share in
The Encyclopædia of American Literature, was the author of Lives of
George Herbert; Bishop Ken; Jeremy Taylor; Bishop Latimer.

=Dwight, Benjamin Woodbridge.= _Ct._, 1816-1889. Grandson of Timothy
Dwight, _infra_. An educator of New York city. The Higher Christian
Education; Modern Philosophy; Modern Philology; Woman’s Higher Culture;
The True Doctrine of Divine Providence; History of the Dwight Family in
America; History of the Strong Family.

=Dwight, Edwin Welles.= _Ms._, 1789-1841. A Congregational clergyman
of Richmond, Massachusetts, whose only publication was a History of
Berkshire County.

=Dwight, Harrison Gray Otis.= _Ms._, 1803-1862. A Congregational
missionary to Armenia. Researches of Smith and Dwight in Armenia;
Christianity Revived in the East; Catalogue of Armenian Literature in
the Middle Ages.

=Dwight, Henry Edwin.= _Ct._, 1797-1832. The eighth son of Timothy
Dwight, _infra_. An educator of New Haven who published Travels in the
North of Germany.

=Dwight, Henry Otis.= _Ty._, 1843- ----. Son of H. G. O. Dwight,
_supra_. A Federal officer during the Civil War, and a correspondent of
the New York Tribune from Constantinople, 1876-79. Turkish Life in War
Times; Constantinople and its Problems. _Rev. Scr._

=Dwight, John Sullivan.= _Ms._, 1813-1893. A distinguished musical
critic of Boston, editor of Dwight’s Journal of Music, an outspoken,
fearless, high-class critical periodical, 1852-81. In earlier life he
spent five years at Brook Farm, and was a contributor to The Dial. He
was the author of a History of Music in Boston and the poem God Save
the State.

=Dwight, Mary Ann.= _Ms._, 1806-1858. A teacher of drawing and painting
in New York city. Grecian and Roman Mythology; Introduction to the
Study of Art; Art as a Branch of Education.

=Dwight, Nathaniel.= _Ms._, 1770-1831. Brother of Timothy Dwight,
_infra_. A physician and clergyman of Rhode Island and Connecticut, who
published the first school geography in America, and was author also of
The Great Question Answered; A Compendious History of the Signers of
the Declaration of Independence. _Bar._

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

A dictionary of American authors

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