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THOMAS NELSON PAGE (1853- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 450 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:NELSON See also:PAGE (1853- )  , See also:American author,' was See also:born at See also:Oakland See also:Plantation, See also:Hanover See also:county, See also:Virginia, on the 23rd of See also:April 1853, the See also:great-See also:grandson of See also:Thomas See also:Nelson (1738-1789) and of See also:John See also:Page (1744-1808), both See also:governors of Virginia, the former being a signer of the See also:Declaration of See also:Independence . After a course at See also:Washington and See also:Lee University (1869-1872) he graduated in See also:law at the university of Virginia (1874), and practised, chiefly in See also:Richmond, until 1893, when he removed to Washington, D . C., and devoted himself to See also:writing and lecturing . In 1884 he had published in the See also:Century See also:Magazine " Marve Chan," a See also:tale of See also:life in Virginia during the See also:Civil See also:War, which immediately attracted See also:attention . He wrote other stories of See also:negro life and See also:character (" Meh See also:Lady," " Unc' Edinburg's Drowndin'," and " Ole 'Stracted "), which, with two others, were published in 1887 with the See also:title In Ole Virginia, perhaps his most characteristic See also:book . This was followed by Befo' de War (1888), See also:dialect poems, written with Armistead See also:Churchill See also:Gordon (b . 1855); On Newfound See also:River (1891); The Old See also:South (1891), social and See also:political essays; Elsket and Other Stories (1892); The See also:Burial of the Guns (1894); Pastime Stories (1894); The Old See also:Gentleman of the See also:Black Stock (1897); Social Life in Old Virginia before the War (1897); Two Prisoners (1888); Red See also:Rock (1898), a novel of the Reconstruction See also:period; Gordon See also:Keith (1903); The Negro: the Southerner's Problem (1904); Bred in the See also:Bone and Other Stories (1904); The See also:Coast of Bohemia (1906), poems; The Old Dominion: Her Making and her See also:Manners (1907), a collection of essays; Under the Crust (1907), stories; See also:Robert E . Lee, the Southerner (1908); John Marvel, Assistant (1909), a novel; and various books for See also:children . He is at his best in those See also:short stories in which, through negro character and dialect, he pictures the life of the Virginia gentry, especially as it centred about the mutual devotion of See also:master and servant .

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