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The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers

The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers

Merwin, Henry Childs

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Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1515094383
ISBN13: 9781515094388
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 15 2015
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.21 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Francis Brett Harte was born at Albany in the State of New York, on August twenty-fifth, 1836. By his relatives and early friends he was called Frank; but soon after beginning his career as an author in San Francisco he signed his name as Brett, then as Bret, and finally as Bret Harte. Bret Harte, therefore, is in some degree a nom de guerre, and it was commonly supposed at first, both in the Eastern States and in England, to be wholly such. Our great New England novelist had a similar experience, for Nathaniel Hawthorne was long regarded by most of his readers as an assumed name, happily chosen to indicate the quaint and poetic character of the tales to which it was signed. Bret Harte's father was Henry Hart; but before we trace his ancestry, let us endeavor to see how he looked. Fanny Kemble met him at Lenox, in the year 1875, and was much impressed by his appearance.

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