Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...London Times says : "We have Wilkie Collins for plots, Mr. Black for sunsets, Mr. Howells and Mr. James for unrivalled painters in miniature, and Ouida for emotions, but we have not a novelist equal to those of the days of Thackeray and George Eliot...
...George W. Cable, the novelist, is to give three readings this week in Chickering Hall...
...Lowell's address at the unveiling of the bust of Fielding, says: "One reads this speech with a kind of shame in thinking that there is not probably a single English man of letters who could have delivered so good a discourse; not one scholar, poet or novelist who could stand up and speak so well, even on such a subject as Henry Fielding. Several there are no doubt who could have written as well; indeed, it is a most promising and fertile theme; but to write is English and to speak is American...
Yale at her last commencement conferred the degree of LL. D. upon Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, and the degree of M. A. upon George W. Cable the novelist...
Sandeau, the French novelist, died in Paris yesterday...