EDWARD

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• EDWARD EGGLESTON (1837–1902)

EGGLESTON (1837–1902)  , American novelist and historian, was born in Vevay, Indiana, on the loth of December 1837, of Virginia stock . Delicate health, by which he was more or less handicapped throughout his life, prevented his going to college, but he was naturally a diligent student . He was a Methodist circuit rider and pastor in Indiana and Minnesota (1857-1866); associate editor (1866–1867) of The Little Corporal, Chicago; editor of The National Sunday School Teacher, Chicago (1867 -187o); literary editor and later editor-in-chief of The Independent, New York (1870–1871); and editor of Hearth and Home in 1871–1872 . He was pastor of the church of Christian Endeavour, Brooklyn, in 1874–1879 . From 188o until his death on the 2nd of September 1902, at his home on Lake George, New York, he devoted himself to literary work . His fiction includes Mr Blake's Walking Stick (1869), for children; The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1871); The End of the World (1872); The Mystery of Metropolisville (1893); The Circuit Rider (1874); Roxy (1878); The Hoosier Schoolboy (1883); The Book of Queer Stories (1884), for children; The Graysons (1888), an excellent novel; The Faith Doctor (1891); and Duffels (1893), short stories . Most of his stories portray the pioneer manners and dialect of the Central West, and the Hoosier Schoolmaster was one of the first examples of American local realistic fiction; it was very popular, and was translated into French, German and Danish . During the last third of his life Eggleston laboured on a History of Life in the United States, but he lived to finish only two volumes—The Beginners of a Nation (1896) and The Transit of Civilization (1900) . In addition he wrote several popular compendiums of American history for schools and homes . See G . C . Eggleston, The First of the Hoosiers (Philadelphia, 1903), and Meredith Nicholson, The Hoosiers (1900) .

His

brother GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON (1839– ), American journalist and author, served in the Confederate army; was managing editor and later editor-in-chief of Hearth and Home (1871–1874); was literary editor of the New York Evening Post (1875–1881), literary editor and afterwards editor-in-chief of the New York Commercial Advertiser (1884–1889), and editorial writer for The World (New York) from 1889 to 'goo . Most of his books are stories for boys; others, and his best, are romances dealing with life in the South especially in the Virginias and the Carolinas—before and during the Civil War . Among his publications may be mentioned: A Rebel's Recollections (1874); The Last of the Flatboats (1900) ; Camp Venture (1900); A Card;na Cavalier (19oi); Dorothy South (1902); The Master of Warlock (1903) ; Evelyn Byrd (1904); A Daughter of the South (1905) ; Blind Alleys (Igoe) ; Love is the Sum of it all (1907) ; History of the Con-federate War (1910); and Recollections of a Varied Life (191o) .