HOME LIFE
OF
GREAT AUTHORS

BY

HATTIE TYNG GRISWOLD

SEVENTH EDITION

CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1902

Copyright
By A. C. McClurg and Co.
A.D. 1886.

PREFACE.

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The author of these sketches desires to say that they were written, notfor the special student of literary biography, who is already familiarwith the facts here given, but rather for those busy people who havelittle time for reading, yet wish to know something of the private lifeand personal history of their favorite authors. The sketches are notintended to be critical, or to present anything like completebiographies. They are devoted chiefly to the home life of the variousauthors,—which, though an instructive and fascinating study, seemscommonly neglected in popular biographies.

It should be added that a few of these sketches have already appeared inprint, but they have been rewritten to adapt them to their presentpurpose.

H. T. G.

Columbus, Wis., October, 1886.

CONTENTS.

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