The U.S. ambassador to Spain from 1842 to 1846 wrote a book while living in what town in England?
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Washington Irving Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both of which appear in his book "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith, and Muhammad, and several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Christopher Columbus, the Moors and the Alhambra. Irving served as the U.S. ambassador to Spain from 1842 to 1846.
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story of speculative fiction by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitled, "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.". Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first published in 1820. Along with Irving's companion piece "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especially during Halloween because of a character known as the headless horseman believed to be a Hessian soldier who lost his head to a cannonball in battle.
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Ambrose Baber Edward Ambrose Baber (April 23, 1793 – March 19, 1846) was a U.S. doctor and diplomat. He was the U.S. chargé d'affaires in Italy from 1841 to 1844.
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Annie Haven Thwing Annie Haven Thwing (July 4, 1851 – June 5, 1940), also known as A.H. Thwing or Anne Haven Thwing, was an American historian and children's author. Her book for children, "Chicken Little", with illustrations by Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter, appeared in 1899; as the title suggests, the book re-tells the old story of a chicken who believes the sky is falling. As an historian Thwing compiled an enormous card index of subjects related to the history of Boston, Massachusetts. She donated the index to the Massachusetts Historical Society, where the cards "occupied seventy-four library drawers in the catalog room." She also created a 3-dimensional model of the town of Boston as it appeared in 1775, based on her research. The model now resides on public display in the Old South Meeting House. In 1920 her book on Boston history, "The Crooked & Narrow Streets of the Town of Boston 1630-1822", reached the "Boston Globe" best-seller list. At the time the book sold for five dollars. In addition to her work on Boston history she wrote about Orr's Island, Maine, where her family maintained a residence. In the course of her life she corresponded with a number of notables including Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Fanny Bowditch Dixwell Holmes, Alice James, Charles Franklin Thwing, Horace Howard Furness, and Edward Everett Hale. She also contributed to charitable causes such as the Massachusetts Infant Asylum.
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William Arthur Dunkerley William Arthur Dunkerley (12 November 1852 – 23 January 1941) was a prolific English journalist, novelist and poet. He was born in Manchester, spent a short time after his marriage in America before moving to Ealing, west London, where he served as deacon and teacher at the Ealing Congregational Church from the 1880s, and he then moved to Worthing in Sussex in 1922, where he became the town's mayor.
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The History of Henry Esmond The History of Henry Esmond is a historical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, originally published in 1852. The book tells the story of the early life of Henry Esmond, a colonel in the service of Queen Anne of England. A typical example of Victorian historical novels, Thackeray's work of historical fiction tells its tale against the backdrop of late 17th- and early 18th-century England – specifically, major events surrounding the English Restoration — and utilises characters both real (but dramatised) and imagined.
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Maria C. Hakewill Maria C. Hakewill (died 1842) was a British painter and writer. She was born in the latter part of the 18th century. She married James Hakewill, the architect, whom she accompanied to Italy, where they spent two years, 1816 and 1817. Her novel, "Coelebs Suited; or, The Stanley Letters" was published in 1812. Hakewill painted portraits and scenes in oil. She exhibited at the Royal Academy, British Institution, and Society of British Artists, between 1808 and 1838. She died at Calais in 1842. Children included the sons Henry James, John Henry, Arthur William, and Frederick Charles.
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James Ralph James Ralph (1705 – 24 January 1762) was an American-born English political writer, historian, reviewer, and Grub Street hack writer known for his works of history and his position in Alexander Pope's "Dunciad B." His "History of England" in two volumes (1744–46) and "The Case of the Authors by Profession" of 1758 became the dominant narratives of their time.
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Henry B. Dawson Henry Barton Dawson (June 8, 1821 – May 23, 1889) was born in Lincolnshire, England and emigrated to New York City in 1834. He was an editor of the pro-temperance "The Crystal Font" and "Rechabite Recorder". He wrote "Battles of the United States by Sea and Land", published 1858 and in 1863 an edition of "The Federalist", creating controversy with James A. Hamilton and John Jay. He owned and edited the "Historical Magazine" from 1866 to 1876. He also authored "Westchester County, New York during the American Revolution" which was published in 1886 in J.T. Scharf's "History of Westchester County".
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William Simpson Potter William Simpson Potter (21 January 1805 – 16 January 1879) was a 19th-century English author. From available information, Potter was a friend of Henry Spencer Ashbee, a merchant, bibliographer, bibliophile, authority on the life and works of Cervantes, and collector of erotic materials. Ashbee describes Potter as a "shrewd business man, the ardent collector, and the enthusiastic traveller".
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Betty Bentley Beaumont Betty Bentley Beaumont (9 August 1828 - 6 September 1892) was a 19th-century British author, merchant, cotton factor and hotel owner. After immigrating to the United States, she became a successful merchant of Woodville, Mississippi. Beaumont was the author of the autobiography, "Twelve Years of My Life", and "A Business Woman's Journal", which documented part of her career. After her return to England, she died there in 1892.
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Joseph Hodgkins Joseph Hodgkins (August 28, 1743 – September 25, 1829) was an Ipswich, Massachusetts cordwainer who would later go on to serve as an officer in the American Revolutionary War. The letters between Hodgkins and his wife, Sarah, have served as an important historical footnotes since the early 1900s for understanding the Revolutionary War and have been featured in such books as the Library of America's "The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence ", David McCullough's "1776", and Ray Raphael's "A People's History of the American Revolution".
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William Henry Rideing William Henry Rideing (17 February 1853, Liverpool – 1918) was an American author with strong connections to England.
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Acklington Park Acklington Park in the parish of Warkworth, Northumberland, England was the birthplace of John Rushworth (born c.1612) who achieved fame in both England and during the formation of the United States of America for compiling a series of works called "Historical Collections" covering the English Civil Wars throughout the 17th century. His writings became a part of the library of Thomas Jefferson and the second Library of Congress.
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Ehrman Syme Nadal Ehrman Syme Nadal, A.M. (1843–1922) was an American author, born at Lewisburg, West Virginia. He graduated from Yale in 1864. His employment included serving as second secretary of the United States Legation at London in the 1870s, being on the staff of the "New York Nation" for several years in the 1880s, and lecturing on English composition at Columbia in 1892-1893. His publications include: "Impressions of London Social Life" (1875); "Essays at Home and Elsewhere" (1882); and "Zwieback: Notes of a Professional Exile" (1895).
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Jesse Fish Jesse Fish (1724 or 1726–1790) was a shipmaster, merchant, and realtor who lived in St. Augustine, Florida under both Spanish and British rule, and is infamous in the town's history to this day. He was a schemer involved in contraband trade and illegal real estate deals, and operated as a slaver, smuggler, and usurer. By his slaver activities Fish introduced most of the "bozales", or African-born slaves, registered in Spanish Florida during the decade (1752–1763) preceding Spain's cession of Florida to Great Britain. He has been accused of spying for England and Spain as a double agent during the Seven Years’ War, but there is no evidence to support the claim.
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George Knightley George Knightley is a principal character depicted by Jane Austen in her novel "Emma", written in 1815. He is a landowner and gentleman farmer, though one (as the author slily informs us) "having little spare money". A lifetime friend of Emma's, though nearly seventeen years older than she, he enjoys correcting Emma, as Emma observes in chapter 1.
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France and England in North America France and England in North America (ISBN  ) is a multi-volume history of the European colonization of North America written by Francis Parkman between 1865 and 1892, which highlights the military struggles between France and Great Britain. It was well regarded at the time of publication, and continues to enjoy a reputation as a literary masterpiece. While it is still useful in a limited capacity as an historical study, Parkman took many liberties in describing unknown and unknowable details. This has led some critics to categorize Parkman's work as belonging in the purgatory between history and historical fiction.
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George Barnett Smith George Barnett Smith (17 May 1841 – 2 January 1909) was an English author and journalist.
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Philip Traherne Philip Traherne, or Traheron ( ; 9 August 1635 in Lugwardine – 1686 in St. Nicholas, Hereford) was an English diplomat, author of books.
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The Life of Our Lord The Life of Our Lord is a book about the life of Jesus Christ written by English novelist Charles Dickens, for his young children, between 1846 and 1849, at about the time that he was writing "David Copperfield". "The Life of Our Lord" was published in 1934, 64 years after Dickens' death.
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Charles Warren Greene Charles Warren Greene (1840 – 1920) was an American journalist and author, born in Belchertown, Massachusetts.