DONALD GRANT MITCHELL (1822—1908)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V18,
Page 617
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
DONALD See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
GRANT See also:MITCHELL (1822—1908)
See also:American author, was See also:born in See also:Norwich, See also:Connecticut, on the 12th of See also:April 1822
.
He graduated at Yale See also:College in 1841; studied See also:law, but soon took up literature
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Throughout his See also:life he showed a particular See also:interest in See also:agriculture and landscape-gardening, which he followed at first in pursuit of See also:health
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He produced books of travel, volumes of essays on rural themes, of which My See also:Farm of Edgewood (1863) is the best; sketchy studies of See also:English monarchs and of English and American literature; and a See also:character-novel entitled See also:Doctor Johns (1866), &c.; but is best known as the author (under the See also:pseudonym of " Ik Marvel "), of the sentimental essays contained in the volumes Reveries of a See also:Bachelor, or a See also:Book of the See also:Heart (185o), and See also:Dream Life, a See also:Fable of the Seasons (1851)
.
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