Identifier: portraitsbiograp00scud (find matches)
Title: Portraits and biographical sketches of twenty American authors
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902
Subjects: Authors, American
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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)hAValdo Emerson. A fuller biography is the volume onThoreau by F. B, Sanborn in the Ainerican lUen of Lettersseries.
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CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER. Like iNIr. Aldrich, who played witli his hoyhood in TheStory of a Bad Boy, Mr. Warner has treated himself as asort of third person in Being a Boy, the scenes of which arelaid in a primitive jNIassachusetts conntry neighborhood.The place which stood for its portrait is Charlemont, nearthe eastern opening to the Hoosac tunnel. Here Mr. War-ner spent his boyhood, removing to the place, wlien hisfather died, from Plainfield. in the same state, where hewas born September 12, 1829. He was five years old whenhe was taken to Charlemont, and he remained there eightyears, and then removed to Cazenovia, N. Y. His guardianintended him for business life, and placed him after hisschool days as clerk in a store, but his intellectual ambitionwas strong, and against all adverse fates he secured a col-legiate education at Hamilton College, where he graduatedin 1851. His college many years later conferred on himthe degree of Doctor of Letters. For the next half dozen years he was

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