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

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