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Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900, American editor and author, b. Plainfield, Mass., grad. Hamilton College, 1851, LL.B. Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1858. After practicing law in Chicago, he was associate editor and publisher of the Hartford, Conn., Courant. The many travel articles he contributed to the Courant and to Harper's Magazine were later published in book form. Warner edited the "American Men of Letters" series, for which he wrote a life of Washington Irving, and the "Library of the World's Best Literature" (30 vol., 1896-97). He wrote several novels and collaborated with Mark Twain on The Gilded Age (1873). My Summer in a Garden (1871) is one of several collections of his polished, charming essays.
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1870My Summer in a Garden. Warner's first major work, a series of essays and sketches about his farm, is compared favorably to Washington Irving's sketches. It would go through forty-four editions by 1895. His other essay collections include Backlog Studies (1873), Baddeck (1874), and Being a Boy (1878). Warner, who became the editor of the Hartford Courant in 1861, is best known for his collaboration with his friend Mark Twain that produced the novel The Gilded Age (1873).
1881American Men of Letters series. Under the editorship of Charles Dudley Warner, this series of critical biographies begins with Washington Irving. By 1904, twenty-two volumes would be issued, including studies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Fenimore Cooper, and Margaret Fuller.
1894The Golden House. This is the second of Warner's social satires of the Gilded Age, which had begun with A Journey in the World (1889) and would conclude with That Fortune (1899).
1899That Fortune. The concluding novel of a trilogy that had begun with A Little Journey in the World (1889) and The Golden House (1895), satirizing the Gilded Age that Warner and Mark Twain had named in 1873.

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"The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities."

"It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous."

"There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help."

"Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being."

"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."

"Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough."

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Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 – October 20, 1900) was an American essayist and novelist.

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Biography

Warner was born of Puritan descent in Plainfield, Massachusetts. From age six to age fourteen, he lived in Charlemont, Mass., the scene of the experiences pictured in his study of childhood, Being a Boy (1877). He then moved to Cazenovia, New York, and in 1851 graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, NY.

He worked with a surveying party in Missouri; studied law at the University of Pennsylvania; practised in Chicago (1856–1860); was assistant editor (1860) and editor (1861–1867) of The Hartford Press, and after The Press was merged into The Hartford Courant, was co-editor with Joseph R Hawley; in 1884 he joined the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine, for which he conducted The Editors Drawer until 1892, when he took charge of The Editor's Study. He died in Hartford on October 20, 1900, and was interred at Cedar Hill Cemetery, with Mark Twain as a pall bearer and Joseph Twichell officiating.[1]

He travelled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and, at the time of his death, was president of the American Social Science Association. He first attracted attention by the reflective sketches entitled My Summer in a Garden (1870; first published in The Hartford Courant), popular for their abounding and refined humour and mellow personal charm, their wholesome love of outdoor things, their suggestive comment on life and affairs, and their delicately finished style, qualities that suggest the work of Washington Irving. He is now best known for making the remark "Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it". This was quoted by Mark Twain in a lecture, and is often attributed to him.

Selected list of works

  • Saunterings (descriptions of travel in eastern Europe, 1872)
  • BackLog Studies (1872)
  • Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing (1874), travels in Nova Scotia and elsewhere
  • My Winter on the Nile (1876)
  • In the Levant (1876)
  • In the Wilderness (1878)
  • A Roundabout Journey, in Europe (1883)
  • On Horseback, in the Southern States (1888)
  • Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada (1889)
  • Our Italy, southern California (1891)
  • The Relation of Literature to Life (1896)
  • The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote (1897)
  • Fashions in Literature (1902)

He also edited The American Men of Letters series, to which he contributed an excellent biography of Washington Irving (1881), and edited a large Library of the World's Best Literature.

His other works include his essays:

  • As We Were Saying (1891)
  • As We Go (1893)

And his novels:

See the biographical sketch by TR Lounsbury in the Complete Writings (15 vols, Hartford, 1904) of Warner.

Other publications

  • Annie A. Fields, Charles Dudley Warner (Garden City, New York, 1904)
  • passim, A. B. Paine, Mark Twain (three volumes, New York, 1912)
  • Brander Matthews, Aspects of Fiction (new edition, New York, 1902)
  • Nook Farm: Mark Twain's Hartford Circle, by Kenneth R. Andrews. 288 pgs. Harvard UP, 1950. Has a lot on Warner, including a complete bib of his works.

References

  1. ^ "CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER". Cedar Hill Cemetery. http://www.cedarhillcemetery.org/Warner.htm. Retrieved 2008-04-28. 

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