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When he was 26, his 17-year-old fiancee died. <ref>[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wirving.htm]</ref> | When he was 26, his 17-year-old fiancee died. <ref>[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wirving.htm]</ref> | ||
He spent 17 years in Europe. <ref>[http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/HNS/Indians/irving.html]</ref> | He spent 17 years in Europe. <ref>[http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/HNS/Indians/irving.html]</ref> | ||
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| + | *[[Lewis Carroll]] | ||
| + | *[[George Gordon, Lord Byron]] | ||
| + | *[[Walter Scott]] | ||
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Revision as of 18:05, March 8, 2008
Washington Irving (1783-1859) was a nineteenth century American diplomat [1] and fiction writer, best known for his story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the shorter Rip Van Winkle.
He has been called the "Father of the short story". He was "first among American writers to obtain universal recognition abroad." [2] When he was 26, his 17-year-old fiancee died. [3] He spent 17 years in Europe. [4]
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Notes
- ↑ He had been a competent secretary and chargé d'affaires of the American Legation in London from 1829 to 1832 and a skillful and shrewd Minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846. (Austin McC. Fox, Introduction to The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other selection from Washington Irving, Simon & Schuster, 1962)
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- ↑ [2]
- ↑ [3]