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HARTE, FRANCIS BRET (1839–1902)

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HARTE, See also:FRANCIS BRET (1839–1902) , See also:American author, was See also:born at See also:Albany, New See also:York, on the 25th of See also:August 1839. His See also:father, a See also:professor of See also:Greek at the Albany See also:College, died during his boyhood. After a See also:common-school See also:education he went with his See also:mother to See also:California at the See also:age of seventeen, afterwards working in that See also:state as a teacher, miner, printer, See also:express-messenger, secretary of the See also:San Francisco See also:mint, and editor. His first See also:literary venture was a See also:series of Condensed Novels (travesties of well-known See also:works of fiction, somewhat in the See also:style of See also:Thackeray), published weekly in The Californian, of which he was editor, and reissued in See also:book See also:form in 1867. The Overland Monthly, the earliest considerable literary See also:magazine on the Pacific See also:coast, was established in 1868, with Harte as editor. His sketches and poems, which appeared in its pages during the next few years, attracted wide See also:attention in the eastern states and in See also:Europe. Bret Harte was an See also:early See also:master of the See also:short See also:story, and his Californian tales were regarded as introducing a new genre into fiction. " The See also:Luck of Roaring See also:Camp " (1868), " The Outcasts of See also:Poker See also:Flat " (1869), the later See also:sketch " How See also:Santa Claus came to See also:Simpson's See also:Bar," and the verses entitled " See also:Plain See also:Language from Truthful See also:James," combined See also:humour, pathos and See also:power of See also:character portrayal in a manner that indicated that the new See also:land of See also:mining-gulches, gamblers, unassimilated Asiatics, and picturesque and varied landscape had found its best delineator; so that Harte became, in his See also:pioneer pictures, a sort of later Fenimore See also:Cooper. See also:Forty-four volumes were published by him between 1867 and 1898. After a See also:year as professor in the university of California, Harte lived in New York, 1871–1878; was See also:United States See also:consul at See also:Crefeld, See also:Germany, 1878–1880; consul at See also:Glasgow, 188o–1885; and after 1885 resided in See also:London, engaged in literary See also:work. He died at Camberley, See also:England, on the 5th of May 1902. A library edition of his Writings (16 vols.) was issued in 1900, and increased to 19 vols. in 1904.

See also H. W. Boynton, Bret Harte (1905) in the Contemporary Men of Letters series; T. E. Pemberton, See also:

Life of Bret Harte (1903), which contains a See also:list of his poems, tales, &c.

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