All posts tagged "authors"
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10.5KArts and LeisureHelen Hunt Jackson Tries to Write Her Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Helen Hunt Jackson was an odd choice to write one of the most popular romances of the period between the 1880s and...
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25.9K12Business and LaborAbbie Burgess, Teenaged Heroine of Matinicus Rock Light
Abbie Burgess, at just 16, kept the light burning in Matinicus Rock Lighthouse for 21 days in 1856 during a violent storm....
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10.4K15Arts and LeisureElizabeth Peabody, Always a Bridesmaid…
In 1832, a young widower named Horace Mann moved into a Boston boardinghouse where he met two intellectual schoolteachers from Salem, Mary...
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7.9K13Arts and LeisureJames Fields and the Old Corner Bookstore
In the middle of the 18th century, visitors to the Old Corner Bookstore would find James Thomas Fields laughing and talking with...
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