Edwin Percy Whipple (March 8, 1819 – June 16, 1886) was an American essayist and critic. He was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1819. For a time...
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Scarlet Letter being published!" She noted that her husband's friend Edwin Percy Whipple, a critic, approached Fields to consider its publication. The manuscript...
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initiated his most lucrative period as a writer. Hawthorne's friend Edwin Percy Whipple objected to the novel's "morbid intensity" and its dense psychological...
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Misérables at Project Gutenberg – English translation. Review by Edwin Percy Whipple The Atlantic Monthly. July 1862. Les Misérables public domain audiobook...
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perfect" than the author's previous novel. Even so, Boston critic Edwin Percy Whipple simply called it his "greatest work". Hawthorne's friend Herman Melville...
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which a writer can hope for but once in his life." Friend and critic Edwin Percy Whipple noted that, even if Hawthorne had written nothing else, The Marble...
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Dorothy Whipple (1893–1966), English writer of popular fiction Edwin Percy Whipple (1819–1886), American essayist and critic Frances Harriet Whipple Green...
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will-o'-the-wisp genius of Dickens has so long led the public mind". Edwin Percy Whipple from North American Review considered The Tenant "less unpleasant"...
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Atlantic Monthly article entitled "The Genius of Dickens", critic Edwin Percy Whipple declared that Dickens's characters "have a strange attraction to...
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Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edwin Percy Whipple. In 1867, he performed the same role after the death of Nathaniel...
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