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DONALD GRANT MITCHELL (1822—1908)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 617 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DONALD

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GRANT
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MITCHELL (1822—1908) 
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American author, was
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born in
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Norwich,
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Connecticut, on the 12th of
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April 1822 . He graduated at Yale
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College in 1841; studied
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law, but soon took up literature . Throughout his
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life he showed a particular
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interest in
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agriculture and landscape-gardening, which he followed at first in pursuit of
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health . He produced books of travel, volumes of essays on rural themes, of which My
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Farm of Edgewood (1863) is the best; sketchy studies of
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English monarchs and of English and American literature; and a
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character-novel entitled
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Doctor Johns (1866), &c.; but is best known as the author (under the
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pseudonym of " Ik Marvel "), of the sentimental essays contained in the volumes Reveries of a
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Bachelor, or a
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Book of the
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Heart (185o), and
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Dream Life, a
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Fable of the Seasons (1851) .

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