FAMOUS AMERICAN AUTHORS.
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WHOSE WRITINGS, BIOGRAPHIES AND PORTRAITS APPEAR IN THIS VOLUME.
Abbott, Lyman.
Adams, Charles Follen, (Yawcob Strauss).
Adams, Wm. T., (Oliver Optic).
Alcott, Louisa May.
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey.
Alger, Horatio, Jr.
Anthony, Susan B.
Artemus Ward, (Charles F. Browne).
Austin, Jane Goodwin.
Bancroft, George H.
Barr, Amelia E.
Beecher, Henry Ward.
Bellamy, Edward.
Bill Nye (Edgar Wilson Nye).
Browne, Charles F., (Artemus Ward).¹
Bryant, William Cullen.
♦Burdette, Robert J.
Burnett, Frances Hodgson.
Cable, George W.
Carleton, Will.
Cary, Alice.
Cary, Phoebe.
Child, Lydia Maria.¹
Clay, Henry.
Clemens, Samuel L., (Mark Twain).
Cooper, James Fenimore.
Craddock, Charles Egbert, (Mary N. Murfree).
Crawford, Francis Marion.
Dana, Charles A.
Davis, Richard Harding.
Depew, Chauncey M.
Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth.
Dodge, Mary Abigail, (Gail Hamilton).¹
Dodge, Mary Mapes.¹
Eggleston, Edward.
Ellis, Edward.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
Everett, Edward.
Field, Eugene.
Finley, Martha.
Fiske, John.¹
French, Alice, (Octave Thanet).
Gail Hamilton, (Mary Abigail Dodge).¹
Gilder, Richard Watson.
Gough, John B.
Grady, Henry W.
Greeley, Horace.
Grace Greenwood, (Sarah J. Lippincott).
Hale, Edward Everett.
Halstead, Murat.
Harris, Joel Chandler, (Uncle Remus).
Harte, Bret.
Hawthorne, Julian.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
Hay, John.
Henry, Patrick.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth.
Holley, Marietta, (Josiah Allen’s Wife).¹
Holmes, Oliver Wendell.
Howe, Julia Ward.
Howells, William Dean.
Ik Marvel, (Donald G. Mitchell).
Irving, Washington.
Jackson, Helen Hunt.
Joaquin Miller (Cincinnatus Heine Miller).
Josiah Allen’s Wife, (Marietta Holly).¹
Josh Billings, (Henry W. Shaw).¹
Larcom, Lucy.
Lippincott, Sarah Jane, (Grace Greenwood).
Livermore, Mary A.
Lockwood, Belva Ann.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.
Lowell, James Russell.
Mabie, Hamilton W.
Mark Twain, (Samuel L. Clemens).
Marion Harland, (Mary V. Terhune).
McMaster, John B.
Miller, Cincinnatus Heine, (Joaquin).
Mitchell, Donald Grant (Ik Marvel).
Motley, John L.
Moulton, Louise Chandler.
Murfree, Mary N., (Chas. Egbert Craddock).
Nye, Edgar Wilson, (Bill Nye).
Oliver Optic, (William T. Adams).
Octave Thanet, (Alice French).
Page, Thomas Nelson.
Parkman, Francis.¹
Parton, James.
Phillips, Wendell.
Poe, Edgar Allen.¹
Prescott, William.
Reid, Whitelaw.
Riley, James Whitcomb.
Roe, Edward Payson.
Shaw, Albert.
Shaw, Henry W., (Josh Billings).
Sigourney, Lydia H.
Smith, Elizabeth Oakes.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady.
Stedman, Edmund Clarence.
Stockton, Frank.
Stoddard, Richard Henry.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher.
Taylor, Bayard.¹
Terhune, Mary Virginia.
Thompson, Maurice.¹
Wallace, General Lew.¹
Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
Warner, Charles Dudley.
Watterson, Henry.
Webster, Daniel.
Whitman, Walt.
Whittier, John Greenleaf.
Willard, Frances E.
Willis, Nathaniel Parker.
Whitcher, Mrs. (The Widow Bedott).¹
“Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands.”
Longfellow.