Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Ernest Scott

Ernest Scott

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Sir Ernest Scott KB (21 June 1867 6 December 1939) was an Australian historian, professor of history at the University of Melbourne from 1913.



[Laperouse | A Short History Of Australia | Life Of Laperouse | Terre Napoleon | The Life Of Captain Matthew Flinders]

Monday, February 27, 2012

Michael Sellers

Michael Sellers (1954-2006)

Michael Sellers, (2 April 1954 - 24 July 2006) was an English actor, builder, car restorer, author and the son of actor Peter Sellers. He was often interviewed by the media about his relation with his father. Despite a tenuous and troubled relationship with his father he frequently defended him and his legacy.



[From Aldershot To Pretoria]

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Cyriel Buysse

Cyriel Buysse (1859-1932)

Cyriel Buysse (1859-1932)

Cyrillus Gustave Emile "Cyriel", Baron Buysse (20 September 1859 25 July 1932) was a Flemish naturalist author and playwright. He also wrote under following pseudonyms: Louis Bonheyden, Prosper Van Hove and Robert Palmer.



[Broeder En Zuster | Cetait Ainsi | De Roman Van Den Schaatsenrijder | De Vroolijke Tocht | De Zwarte Kost | Het Leven Van Rozeke Van Dalen Deel 1 | Het Leven Van Rozeke Van Dalen Deel 2 | Lente | Oorlogsvisoenen | Plus Que Parfait]


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Thursday, February 23, 2012

William J Long

William J Long

William J Long title=

William Joseph Long (1857-1952) was an American writer, naturalist and minister. He lived and worked in Stamford, Connecticut as a minister of the First Congregationalist Church. As a naturalist, he would leave Stamford every March, often with his two daughters Lois and Cesca, to travel to "the wilderness" of Maine. There they would stay until the first snows of October, although sometimes he would stay all winter. In the 1920s, he began spending his summers in Nova Scotia, claiming "the wilderness is getting too crowded". He wrote of these wilderness experiences in the books Ways of Wood Folk, Wilderness Ways, Wood-folk Comedies, Northern Trails, Wood Folk at School, and many others. His earlier books were illustrated by Charles Copeland; two later ones were illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull. Long believed that the best way to experience the wild was to plant yourself and sit for hours on end to let the wild "come to you; and they will!" Many of his early books were issued in school editions under the title of The Wood Folk Series.



[Dierenleven In De Wildernisschetsen Uit Het Leven Der Dieren | Een Broertje Van Den Beer | Northern Trails Book I | Secret Of The Woods]


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William John Locke

William John Locke (1863-2015)

William John Locke (1863-2015) title=

William John Locke (March 20, 1863 - May 15, 1930) was a novelist, short story writer, and playwright born in Demerara, in what is now Guyana. Educated in Trinidad and at Cambridge, he entered on a career as a teacher in 1890, but disliked it; in 1897 he became secretary of the Royal Institute of British Architects, a post he held for a decade. In 1894 he published his first novel, At the Gate of Samaria, but he did not achieve real success for another decade, with The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne (1905) and The Beloved Vagabond (1906). Chambers Biographical Dictionary wrote of his "long series of novels and plays which with their charmingly written sentimental themes had such a success during his life in both Britain and America... His plays, some of which were dramatized versions of his novels, were all produced with success on the London Stage" (p. 836). Five times Locke's books made the list of bestselling novels in the United States for the year as determined by the New York Times. His works have been made into twenty-four motion pictures the most recent of which was Ladies in Lavender, filmed in 2004 and starring Dame Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. Adapted to the screen by Charles Dance, it was based on Locke's 1916 short story of the same title that had been published in a collection entitled "Faraway Stories. " Probably the most famous of Locke's books adapted to the screen was the 1918 Pickford Film Corporation production of Stella Maris starring Mary Pickford. In addition, four of his books were made into Broadway plays, two of which Locke wrote and were produced by Charles Frohman. Locke died in Paris, France in 1930. William J. Locke was the uncle of Leslie Mitchell (1905-1985), an actor and radio and television personality who was the first commentator for the new BBC Television Service on its inauguration in November 1936.



[A Christmas Mystery The Story Of Three Wise Men | The Belovd Vagabond | The Joyous Adventures Of Aristide Pujol | The Morals Of Marcus Ordeyne]


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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Agnes Strickland

Agnes Strickland (1796-1874)

Agnes Strickland (1796-1874)

Agnes Strickland (19 August 17968 July 1874) was an English historical writer and poet.



[Alda | The Rival Crusoes]


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Hermann Lns

Hermann Lns

Hermann Lns (1866 - 1914) was a German journalist and writer. He is most famous as "The Poet of the Heath" for his novels and poems celebrating the people and landscape of the North German moors, particularly the Lneburg Heath in Lower Saxony. Lns is well known in Germany for his famous folksongs. He was also a hunter, natural historian and conservationist.



[Der Wehrwolf]


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Alfred Thomas Story

Alfred Thomas Story

Alfred Thomas Story (1842 1934) was an English journalist, poet and author of numerous books. He was born in North Cave, in the county of York, the fourth child in the large family of James Story. His family was an old Durham branch of the Northumbrian Story family. His father, a property-owner and keen amateur musician, composer and poet, died when his son was about ten years of age. He was educated in Manchester, studying for some time at Owen's College. He began his career as a provincial journalist and became the sub-editor of Human Nature, a monthly periodical to which he contributed his first poems. Subsequently he went to Germany to study. He spent two years in Switzerland acting as foreign sub-editor of the Swiss Times, published at first in Geneva and afterwards in Paris as the Continental Times. Returning to England, he worked for several years in the provincial press, part of this time on the Northampton Mercury. Settling in London, he contributed, during the ensuing years, to many newspapers and literary periodicals. He was a sometime editor of The Phrenological Magazine and published two books on the now discredited subject of phrenology. During his long life, he produced numerous books. These include biographies (The Life of John Linnell, William Ewart Gladstone and his Contemporaries,William Blake, his Life, Character and Genius, James Holmes and John Varley); local histories (Historical Legends of Northamptonshire, American Shrines in England); literary essays (Books that are the Hearts of Men, A Book of Vagrom Men and Vagrant Thoughts); popular science works; history (The Building of the Empire); economics (The Martyrdom of Labour); travel (Swiss Life in Town and Country, North Wales); public school fiction (Boys of St. Elmos); romances (Only Half a Hero, Fifine) and poetry (The Northern Cross and Other Poems, The Trumpeter of the Dawn and Other Poems).


W Story's Books:


[A Roman Lawyer In Jerusalem]

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Sarah Gorham

Sarah Gorham

Sarah Gorham is an American poet, writer and publisher. She was born in Santa Monica, California in 1954. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa in 1978 and her BA in 1976 from Antioch College. She is author of four collections of poetry, most recently, Bad Daughter.


J Gorham's Books:


[Alice In Wonderland]

Douard Glissant

Douard Glissant

douard Glissant is a French writer, poet and literary critic. He is widely recognised as being one of the most influential figures in Caribbean thought and cultural commentary. He studied at the Lyce Schoelcher, named after the abolitionist Victor Schoelcher, where the poet Aim Csaire had studied and to which he returned as a teacher. Csaire had met Lon Damas there; later in Paris they would join with Lopold Senghor, a poet and the future first president of Senegal, to formulate and promote the concept of ngritude. Csaire did not teach Glissant, but did serve as an inspiration to him; another student at the school at that time was Frantz Fanon. Glissant left Martinique in 1946 for Paris, where he received his PhD, having studied ethnography at the Muse de l'Homme and History and philosophy at the Sorbonne. He established, with Paul Niger, the separatist Front Antillo-Guyanais pour l'Autonomie party in 1959, as a result of which Charles de Gaulle barred him from leaving France between 1961 and 1965. He returned to Martinique in 1965 and founded the Institut martiniquais d'tudes, as well as Acoma, a social sciences publication. He now divides his time between Martinique, Paris and New York, where he has been visiting professor of French Literature at CUNY since 1995. In January 2006, douard Glissant was asked by Jacques Chirac to take on the presidency of a new cultural centre devoted to the history of slave trade. An English translation of Chirac's speech can be found here



[A New Philosophy Henri Bergson]

Angela Brazil

Angela Brazil (1868-1947)

Angela Brazil (pronounced "brazzle") (30 November 1868 13 March 1947) was one of the first British writers of "modern schoolgirls' stories", written from the characters' point of view and intended primarily as entertainment rather than moral instruction. In the first half of the twentieth century she published nearly 50 books of girls' fiction, the vast majority being boarding school stories. She also published numerous short stories in magazines. Her books were commercially successful, were widely read by tween girls, and influential upon their readers. While interest in girls school stories waned after World War II, her books remained popular until the 1960s. They were seen as disruptive and a negative influence on moral standards by some figures in authority during the height of their popularity, and in some cases were banned by headmistresses in British girls' schools. While her stories have been much imitated in more recent decades, and many of her motifs and plot elements have since become clichs or the subject of parody, they were innovative when they first appeared. Brazil made a major contribution to changing the nature of fiction for girls. She presented a young female point of view which was active, aware of current issues and independently minded; she recognised adolescence as a time of transition, and accepted girls as having common interests and concerns which could be shared and acted upon.



[A Fourth Form Friendship | A Harum Scarum Schoolgirl | A Pair Of Schoolgirls | A Patriotic Schoolgirl | A Popular Schoolgirl | Bosom Friends | For The Sake Of The School | Loyal To The School | Monitress Merle | The Fortunes Of Philippa | The Head Girl At The Gables | The Jolliest School Of All | The Jolliest Term On Record | The Leader Of The Lower School | The Luckiest Girl In The School | The Madcap Of The School | The Manor House School | The New Girl At St Chad | The Nicest Girl In The School | The Princess Of The School | The School By The Sea | The Youngest Girl In The Fifth]


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Monday, February 20, 2012

Marquis De Sade

Marquis De Sade (1740-1814)

Donatien Alphonse Franois, marquis de Sade (2 June 1740 2 December 1814) was a French aristocrat, revolutionary and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle. His works include novels, short stories, plays, and political tracts; in his lifetime some were published under his own name, while others appeared anonymously and Sade denied being their author. He is best known for his erotic novels, which combined philosophical discourse with pornography, depicting bizarre sexual fantasies with an emphasis on violence, criminality, and blasphemy against the Catholic Church. He was a proponent of extreme freedom, unrestrained by morality, religion or law. Sade was incarcerated in various prisons and in an insane asylum for about 32 years of his life; eleven years in Paris (10 of which were spent in the Bastille) a month in Conciergerie, two years in a fortress, a year in Madelonnettes, three years in Bictre, a year in Sainte-Plagie, and 13 years in the Charenton asylum. During the French Revolution he was an elected delegate to the National Convention. Many of his works were written in prison. The term "sadism" is derived from his name.



[Aline Et Valcour Tome I | Aline Et Valcour Tome Ii | Les Crimes De Lamour]

Charles Reynolds Brown

Charles Reynolds Brown

Charles Reynolds Brown (born October 1, 1862, died November 28, 1950) was an American Congregational clergyman and educator, born in Bethany, W. Va. He graduated at the University of Iowa in 1883 and studied theology in Boston University. He lectured at various times at Leland Stanford, Yale, Cornell, and Columbia universities, and was pastor of the First Congregational Church at Oakland, Cal., from 1896 to 1911. In the latter year he became dean of the Yale Divinity School



[Five Young Men]

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Krishnamurti Journal

Krishnamurti Journal

Krishnamurti's Journal is a diary of Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986). It was kept at various dates between September 1973 and April 1975 while he was staying at Brockwood Park, Rome and California, and was originally published in 1982. As was the case with his earlier Notebook, Krishnamurti did not give any particular reason for the keeping of this journal which (also like the Notebook) started and ended suddenly. Krishnamurti biographer Mary Lutyens



[Education As Service]

Donald Monro Dean

Donald Monro Dean

Donald Monro (or Munro) (fl.c.1550-1575) was a Scottish clergyman, who wrote an early and historically valuable description of the Hebrides and other Scottish islands and enjoyed the honorific title of Dean of the Isles.



[An Account Of The Diseases Which Were Most Frequent In The]


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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Edward Lear

Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Edward Lear (12 May 1812 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularised.



[A Book Of Nonsense | Book Of Nonsense | Laughable Lyrics | Nonsense Books | More Nonsense | Nonsense Drolleries | Nonsense Song | The Book Of Nonsense | The Jumblies]

Tim Bowling

Tim Bowling

Tim Bowling is a Canadian poet. He spent his youth in Ladner, British Columbia, and now lives in Edmonton, Alberta. He has also written three novels.



[Sagittulae Random Verses]


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Friday, February 17, 2012

Camilo Castelo Branco

Camilo Castelo Branco (1825-1890)

Camilo Castelo Branco (1825-1890) title=

Camilo Ferreira Botelho Castelo-Branco,1st Viscount de Correia Botelho (March 16, 1825 - June 1, 1890), was a prolific Portuguese writer of the 19th century, having authored over 260 books. His writing is, overall, considered original in that it combines the dramatic and sentimental spirit of Romanticism with a highly personal combination of sarcasm, bitterness and dark humour. He is also celebrated for his peculiar wit and anecdotal character, as well as for his turbulent (and ultimately tragical) biography. His writing, which is centered in the local and the picturesque and is in a general sense affiliated with the Romantic tradition, is often regarded in contrast to that of Ea de Queiroz - a cosmopolitan dandy and a fervorous proponent of Realism, who was Camilo's literary contemporary in spite of being 20 years younger. In this tension between Camilo and Ea - often dubbed by critics the literary guerilla - many have interpreted a synthesis of the two great tendencies present in the Portuguese literature of the 19th century.



[A Morgadinha De Val Damores Entre A Flauta E A Viola | Voltareis O Christo]

Nick Mamatas

Nick Mamatas (1972-now)

Nick Mamatas (born February 20, 1972) is an American author and editor. His most recent novel, Under My Roof, was published in January 2007.



[Move Underground]

Camille Lemonnier

Camille Lemonnier (1844-1913)

Camille Lemonnier (1844-1913)

Antoine Louis Camille Lemonnier (24 March 1844 - 13 June 1913) was a Belgian writer, poet and journalist. He was a member of the Symbolist La Jeune Belgique group, but his best known works are realist. His first work was Salon de Bruxelles (1863), a collection of art criticism. His best known novel is Un Mle (1881).



[Ceux De La Glebe | Lenfant Du Crapaud | Les Deux Consciences | Lhomme En Amour | Lhomme Qui Tue Les Femmes | Une Femme | Le Possd | Le Possede]


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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Bill Maher

Bill Maher (1956-now)

Bill Maher (1956-now) title=

William "Bill" Maher, Jr. (born January 20, 1956) is an American stand-up comedian, television host, social critic, political commentator, author, and actor. Before his current role as the host of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher hosted a similar late-night talk show called Politically Incorrect originally on Comedy Central and later on ABC. Maher is known for his political satire and sociopolitical commentary, which targets a wide swath of topics: religion, politics, bureaucracies of many kinds, political correctness, the mass media, greed among people and persons in positions of high political and social power, the lack of intellectual curiosity of the electorate, among many topics. He supports the legalization of marijuana and gay marriage and serves on the board of PETA. He is also a critic of religion and is an advisory board member of Project Reason, a foundation aiming to promote scientific knowledge and secular values within society. Maher currently ranks number 38 on Comedy Central's 100 greatest stand-ups of all time. Bill Maher got his Hollywood Walk of Fame star on September 14, 2010. His is the 2,417th star dedicated on the famous sidewalk.



[A Man Of Samples]

Beatrice Grimshaw

Beatrice Grimshaw

Beatrice Grimshaw (3 February 1870 - 30 June 1953) was a writer based in Papua New Guinea. She was born in Dunmurry, Co. Antrim, Ireland and worked as a freelance journalist in Dublin from 1891-1903 before moving to Papua, where she was to remain for twenty-seven years, and a close friend of Sir Hubert Murray. In 1936 she retired to Kelso, New South Wales, where she remained for the rest of her life.



[My South Sea Sweetheart]


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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Constance Fenimore Woolson

Constance Fenimore Woolson

Constance Fenimore Woolson

Constance Fenimore Woolson (March 5, 1840 - January 24, 1894) was an American novelist and short story writer. She was a grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper, and is best known for fictions about the Great Lakes region, the American South, and American expatriates in Europe.



[Mentone Cairo And Corfu | Stories By American Authors V4]


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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Henry Newbolt

Henry Newbolt (1862-1938)

Henry Newbolt (1862-1938)

Sir Henry John Newbolt, CH (6 June 1862 19 April 1938) was an English poet. He is best remembered for Vita Lampada, a lyrical piece used for propaganda purposes during the First World War.



[Collected Poems 1897 1907 | Poems Old And New]


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Ellen Fries

Ellen Fries

Ellen Fries (23 September 1855 at Rdslegrd in Trnsfall, Kalmar ln - 31 March 1900 in Stockholm) was a Swedish feminist and writer. She became the first female Ph.D. in Sweden in 1883.



[Kuuluisia Naisia 1]


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Alex Brummer

Alex Brummer (1949-now)

Alex Brummer (born in Brighton, England on 25 May 1949) is a veteran economic commentator, working as a British journalist, editor, and author. He has been the City Editor of the Daily Mail since May 2000, where he writes a daily column on economics and finance. He is a regular contributor to the Jewish Chronicle (London), writing the weekly Media Analysis column and extensively on the Holocaust, Israeli economy, technology, and Middle East policy. Brummer also writes "The Money" article for the New Statesman.



[Runoelmia 1 | Runoelmia 2]


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Saturday, February 11, 2012

Miyamoto Musashi

Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645)

Miyamoto Musashi (1584-1645) title=

May 19), 1645), also known as Shinmen Takez, Miyamoto Bennosuke, or by his Buddhist name Niten Draku, was a Japanese swordsman and samurai famed for his duels and distinctive style. Musashi, as he was often simply known, became renowned through stories of his excellent swordsmanship in numerous duels, even from a very young age. He was the founder of the Hyh Niten Ichi-ry or Niten-ry style of swordsmanship and the author of The Book of Five Rings, a book on strategy, tactics, and philosophy that is still studied today. He is considered as one of the greatest warriors of all time.



[Le Traite Des Cinq Roues | The Book Of Five Rings]


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Evelyn Everett Green

Evelyn Everett Green

Evelyn Ward Everett-Green (17 November 1856, London - 23 April 1932, Funchal) was an English novelist who started her writing career with improving and pious stories for children, and later wrote historical fiction for older girls, and then adult romantic fiction. She wrote about 350 books: more than 200 under her own name, and others using the pen-names H. F. E., Cecil Adair, E. Ward, or Evelyn Dare.



[A Heroine Of France | For The Faith | French And English | In The Days Of Chivalry | In The Wars Of The Roses | The Lord Of Dynevor | The Lost Treasure Of Trevlyn | The Secret Chamber At Chad | The Sign Of The Red Cross]


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Craig Scanlon

Craig Scanlon (1960-now)

Craig Scanlon (1960-now) title=

Craig Scanlon (born 7 December 1960) is a British guitarist, best known as a member of The Fall between 1979 and 1995. During this period he co-wrote over 120 of the group's songs; Mark E. Smith excepted, this tally is unmatched by any other musician to have passed through the group.



[A Switch In Time | Another Job For Homicide | Check And Double Check | Close To A Corpse | Half A Grand | Lincoln Letter | Page The Murderer | The Shock]

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913)

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913)

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 - after 1913) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist and satirist. Today, he is best known for his short story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and his satirical lexicon, The Devil's Dictionary. The sardonic view of human nature that informed his work along with his vehemence as a critic, with his motto "nothing matters" earned him the nickname "Bitter Bierce. " Despite his reputation as a searing critic, however, Bierce was known to encourage younger writers, including poet George Sterling and fiction writer W. C. Morrow. Bierce employed a distinctive style of writing, especially in his stories. This style often includes a cold open, dark imagery, vague references to time, limited descriptions, the theme of war, and impossible events. In 1913, Bierce traveled to Mexico to gain a firsthand perspective on that country's ongoing revolution. While traveling with rebel troops, the elderly writer disappeared without a trace.



[An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge | Diccionario Del Diablo | El Incidente Del Puente Del Buho | The Damned Thing | A Cynic Looks At Life | Black Beetles In Amber | Can Such Things Be | Fantastic Fables | Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories | The Collected Works Of Ambrose Bierce | The Devil Dictionary | The Fiend Delight | The Parenticide Club | A Fruitless Assignment | A Horseman In The Sky | A Jug Of Sirup | A Wireless Message | An Heiress From Redhorse | George Thurston Three Incidents In The Life Of A Man | Killed At Resaca | Moxon Master | My Favorite Murder | One Of The Missing | One Summer Night | Shapes Of Clay | The Collected Works Of Ambrose Bierce Volume 8 | The Difficulty Of Crossing A Field | The Haunted Valley | The Isle Of Pines | The Man And The Snake | The Middle Toe Of The Right Foot | The Shadow On The Dial And Other Essays | The Spook House | Write It Right]


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Charlotte Taylor Blow Charless

Charlotte Taylor Blow Charless

Charlotte Taylor Blow Charless (18101905) founded the "Home of the Friendless" in St. Louis in 1853 for elderly, indigent women who could no longer work and care for themselves. Renamed The Charless Home" in 1977, the institution celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2003 and continues to provide housing and services to retired men (since 1996) as well as women. Mrs. Charless wrote a biography of her husband, Joseph Charless, Jr. (1804-1859) to extol his exemplary moral and Christian character. Her husband, a prominent merchant and banker, was assassinated in St. Louis by a deranged bookkeeper, Joseph Thornton, who believed that Mr. Charless had ruined his character by testifying against him at trial. Mr. Thornton, accused of stealing nearly $20,000 from the Boatmens Saving Association, was acquitted of theft, but found guilty of murder. Mrs. Charless's biography, written as a series of letters to her grandchildren, was privately printed and published in St. Louis in 1869. Born in Southampton, Virginia, Mrs. Charless traveled with her family first to northern Alabama and then, in 1830, to St. Louis where her father, Peter Blow (1777 -1832), briefly operated a hotel. At the time of his death, he or his family sold their slave Dred Scott (ca.1799-1858) to Colonel John Emerson, who took Scott to the free state of Illinois and territory of Wisconsin. When Scott returned to St. Louis in 1842, he sued for his freedom. Scott found moral and monetary support from Charlotte Charless, her husband and her brothers Henry and Taylor Blow. After Scott's final appeal to the United States Supreme Court failed in 1857, Colonel Emerson's widow, by then married to a leading abolitionist, transferred ownership of Scott to Taylor Blow. Mr. Blow gave Mr. Scott his freedom in 1857.



[A Biographical Sketch Of The Life And Character Of Joseph | A Biographical Sketch Of The Life And Character Of Joseph Charless]


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