The Atlantic: Bret Harte's Heroines
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Bret Harte
Francis Brett Hart, known as Bret Harte, was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches.
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culture · American fiction writer and poet (1836–1902) · writer · poet · journalist · typesetter · playwright · prose writer · editor · teacher · also Bret Harte, Francis Bret Harte, Harte
Born 25 August 1836 · Died 5 May 1902 · Q301983
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1948· 1 entry
By the California Centennial Commission), also named after both writers
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1937· 1 entry
With Preston Foster and another in 1952 with Dale Robertson
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1902· 2 entries
Died 1902-05-05.
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Of throat cancer and is buried at Frimley
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1878· 1 entry
Andrew Carnegie praised Harte in Round the World as uniquely American, likely alluding to his regionalism:"A whispering pine of the Sierras transplanted to Fifth Avenue
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1871· 1 entry
To New York and eventually to Boston, where he contracted with the publisher of The Atlantic Monthly for an annual salary of $10,000, "an unprecedented sum at the time"
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1868· 1 entry
Harte became editor of The Overland Monthly, another new literary magazine, published by Roman Anton with the intention of highlighting local writings
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1865· 1 entry
Harte was asked by bookseller Anton Roman to edit a book of California poetry; it was to be a showcase of the finest California writers
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1864· 1 entry
Harte joined with Charles Henry Webb in starting a new literary journal called The Californian
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1861· 1 entry
With this persona taking part in many satirical doings
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1857· 1 entry
And, in October of that same year, his first prose piece on "A Trip Up the Coast"
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1853· 1 entry
Later working there in a number of capacities, including miner, teacher, messenger, and journalist; he was also secretary of the San Francisco Mint
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1836· 1 entry
Born 1836-08-25.
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