Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1860. In the Civil War era few American humorists were as popular as Charles Farrar Browne (1834-67), a vagabond reporter and lecturer better known by his pseudonym–Artemus Ward. Starting his career as a typesetter for Boston’s Carpet-Bag in 1851, by the middle-fifties Browne was […]
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Artemus Ward and The Woman in White (823 C69w 1860b)
September 12, 2012