See also:JOEL See also:CHANDLER See also:HARRIS (1848-1908)
, See also:American author, was See also:born in Eatonton, See also:Putnam See also:county, See also:Georgia, on the 8th of See also:December 1848
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He started as an apprentice to the printer's See also:trade in the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of the Countryman, a weekly See also:paper published on a See also:plantation not far from his See also:home
.
He then studied See also:law, and practised for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in Forsyth, Ga., but soon took to journalism
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He joined the See also:staff of the See also:Savannah Daily See also:News in 1871, and in 1876 that of the See also:Atlanta Constitution, of which he was an editor from 1890 to 1901, and in this capacity did much to further the cause of the New See also:South
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But his most distinctive contribution to this paper, and to American literature, consisted of his See also:dialect pieces dealing with See also:negro See also:life and See also:folklore
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His stories are characterized by See also:quaint See also:humour, poetic feeling and homely See also:philosophy; and " See also:Uncle Remus," the See also:principal See also:character of most of them, is a remarkably vivid and real creation
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The first collection of his stories was published in 188o as Uncle Remus: his Songs and his Sayings
..
Among his later See also:works are Nights with Uncle Remus (1883), Mingo and Other Sketches in See also:Black and See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
White (1884), See also:Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches (1887), See also:Balaam and His See also:Master and Other Sketches and Stories (1891), Uncle Remus and His See also:Friends (1892), On the Plantation (1892), which is partly autobiographic, See also:Sister Jane (1896), The See also:Chronicles of Aunt Minervy See also:Ann (1899), and The See also:Tar-Baby and Other Rhymes of Uncle Remus (1904)
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More purely juvenile are Daddy Jake the Runaway and Other Stories (1889), Little Mr Thimblejinger and his Queer See also:Country (1894) and its sequel Mr See also:Rabbit at Home (1895), See also:Aaron in the Wildwoods (1897), Plantation Pageants (1899), Told by Uncle Remus (1905), and Uncle Remus and Br'er Rabbit (1907)
.
He was one of the compilers of the Life of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry W
.
Grady, including his Writings and Speeches (1890) and wrote Stories of Georgia (1896), and Georgia from the Invasion of De See also:Soto to See also:Recent Times (1899)
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He died in Atlanta on the 3rd of See also:July 1908
.
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