
A Family of Poets & Writers

John Milton b. 1608 - d. 1674

Nathaniel Hawthorne b. 1804 - d. 1864

Richard Lovelace b. 1618 - d. 1657

Sir Walter Scott b. 1771 - d. 1832

William Wordsworth b. 1770 - d. 1850

Edgar Allan Poe b. 1809 - d. 1849
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William Charles Wentworth b. 1790 - d. 1872

Elizabeth Barrett Browning b. 1806 - d. 1861

Jonathan Swift b. 1667 - d. 1745

George Orwell b. 1903 - d. 1950
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William Stoughton b. 1631 - d. 1701
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Author of: "New-Englands true interest; not to lie: or, A treatise declaring from the word of truth the terms on which we stand, and the tenure by which we hold our hitherto-continued precious and pleasant things. Shewing what the blessed God expecteth from his people, and what they may rationally look for from him."

Donald Grant Mitchell b. 1822 - d. 1908
American essayist and novelist who usually wrote under the pen name Ik Marvel.
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Bibliography:
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Fresh Gleanings, or a New Sheaf from the Old Fields of Continental Europe (1847)
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Battle Summer (1850; originally planned as a two volume work, only the first was published.
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The Lorgnette, or Studies of the Town, by an Opera-Goer (1850)
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Reveries of a Bachelor (1850)
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Dream Life (1851)
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Fudge Doings (1855)
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My Farm of Edgewood (1863)
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Seven Stories (1864)
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Wet Days at Edgewood (1865)
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Doctor Johns (1866)
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Rural Studies (1867; reprinted as Out-of-Town Places in 1884)
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About Old Story Tellers (1877)
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The Woodbridge Record (1883)
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Bound Together (1884)
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English Lands, Letters, and Kings (1889–90)
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American Lands and Letters (1897–9)

Noah Webster Jr. b. 1758 - d. 1843
American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author.
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Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe b. 1811- d. 1896
Author of many books, but best known as the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
*See Also: Freedom Fighters
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Clarence Day b. 1874 d. 1935
Author, best known for his autobiographical "Life with Father" -1935
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