All posts tagged "literature"
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14.9K5MaineJoseph Moody, The Colonial Minister Who Wore a Handkerchief Over His Face
The story of the Rev. Joseph Moody, who preached with a handkerchief over his face, was too good for Nathaniel Hawthorne to...
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8.2K17Arts and LeisureHarriet Beecher Stowe: The Little Lady who Started the Civil War
Did Harriet Beecher Stowe really start the Civil War in 1852? Probably not. But she did force people to think about the...
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27.2K13Arts and LeisureDelia Bacon, Driven Crazy By William Shakespeare
Delia Bacon hated William Shakespeare so passionately she lost her mind and her health trying to prove he didn’t write those plays....
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17.4K7Crime and ScandalHoratio Alger and the 100-Year-Old Secret
Horatio Alger wrote rags-to-riches stories about poor boys who succeed through hard work, often helped by a wealthy benefactor with a guilty...
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3.5K1Arts and LeisureWill the Real Annie Adams Fields Please Stand Up?
Publisher and poet James Fields saw his career take off after he married Annie Adams Fields. It was not a coincidence. Fields’...
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6.1K15MassachusettsElizabeth 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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4.4K10Arts 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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16.3K3Arts and LeisureThe Feud That Drove Rudyard Kipling From Vermont
Rudyard Kipling loved the four years he spent in Vermont, loved the seclusion, the golf, the leaves turning in fall. He would have...
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6.5K11Arts and LeisureBanned in Boston No Longer: The Man Who Stood Up to the Censors
H.L. Mencken in 1926 fought back against the overzealous censorship that inspired the catchphrase ‘Banned in Boston.’ He did it by getting...
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5.7K8Arts and LeisureJohn Cheever: Reluctant New Dealer on the Way to Fame
John Cheever, the sadly elegant chronicler of New England WASPdom, spent a year working for Franklin Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration. He spent...
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