The boyhood of famous authors
By: by William H. Rideing.
Publisher: T. Y. Crowell & company
Published: 1897
Place of publication: New York; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
Subjects: Authors, American -- Biography; Boys -- United States -- Biography
Notes: First issued in 1887 under title: "The boyhood of living authors." New chapters on Stevenson and Kipling have been substituted for those in the 1st edition on Gladstone, T. W. Knox and Edgar Fawcett.
Table of contents: title: Oliver Wendell Holmes.; title: Thomas Bailey Aldrich.; title: John Townsend Trowbridge.; title: William Clark Russell.; title: Edward Eggleston.; title: William Dean Howells.; title: James Payn.; title: John Greenleaf Whittier.; title: Francis Richard Stockton.; title: Edmund Clarence Stedman.; title: Edward Everett Hale.; title: James Russell Lowell.; title: Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen.; title: Thomas Wentworth Higginson.; title: Charles Dudley Warner.; title: Robert Louis Stevenson.; title: Rudyard Kipling.