Literary Cincinnati : the missing chapter / Dale Patrick Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Dale Patrick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literary landmarks--Ohio--Cincinnati.

Literary landmarks.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts--Ohio--Cincinnati.

Authors, American.

Authors, American--Homes and haunts.

Cincinnati (Ohio)--Intellectual life.

Cincinnati (Ohio).

City and town life in literature.

Cincinnati (Ohio)--In literature.

Ohio--Cincinnati.

Physical Description:

xvi, 193 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press ; Cincinnati, Ohio : In association with the Mercantile Library, [2011]

Summary:

"The history of Cincinnati runs much deeper than the stories of hogs that once roamed downtown streets. In addition to hosting the nation's first professional baseball team, the Tall Stacks river boating, and the May Festival, there's another side to the city--one that includes some of the most famous names and organizations in American letters. Literary Cincinnati fills in this missing chapter, taking the reader on a joyous ride with some of the great literary personalities who have shaped life in the Queen City. Meet the young Samuel Clemens working in a local print shop, Fanny Trollope struggling to open her bizarre bazaar, Sinclair Lewis researching Babbitt, hairdresser Eliza Potter telling the secrets of her rich clientele, and many more who defined the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Queen City. For lovers of literature everywhere--but especially in Cincinnati--this is a literary tour that will entertain, inform, and amuse. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 A Trollope! A Trollope! 1

2 Buckeyes, Semi-Colons, and Other Literati 11

3 The Little Woman Who Wrote the Book 19

4 Leases, Lectures, and a Library 29

5 Readers and Publishers 36

6 A Poem in the Picture 45

7 The Poet Sisters 51

8 The Father of the Queen 59

9 Two Tales of a City 68

10 Ones Coming with Papers 73

11 J. B. Pond's Servant 80

12 The Dean and the Queen 86

13 A Hairdresser Telling All 95

14 The New Journalist 102

15 A Good One 111

16 Heretic at Cincinnati 121

17 Babbittry 132

18 The Poet Laureate of Greeting Cards 138

19 Another Spring, Another Poet 146.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0821419692

9780821419694

OCLC:

724662814

Publisher Number:

99947524716