Word: writer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...addition to his law work, Judge Grant had devoted much of his time to literature and has won a wide reputation as a clever writer of short stories...
...very large audience listened to Mr. Copeland's lecture last evening on Mr. Hardy, Mr. Kipling, Miss Jewett, Miss Wilkins and other writers of the Short Story. The lecturer began with a few words upon the theory of this form of literary art. The conte, as the French call it, the short story, as we call it, has not flourished and does not flourish in England. English writers too often make their tales seem like chapters from a three volume novel, or at least like awkward attempts at the novellete. They should, on the contrary, restrict the time...
...Accompanying every such essay must be a sealed envelope containing such assumed name, the writer's real name, address, college, and class, together with a certificate, signed by the president, secretary, or other qualified officer of the local college club of which he is a member, that such writer is a member of such club in good and regular standing...
...judges will be selected from prominent men identified with the civil service reform movement, who will pass upon the essays without knowledge of the writer's name or college...
...painful battle of the artist with the elements of his craft. Stevenson also is revealed as a laboring artist, but the vivid epistles written from Samoa to Mr. Sidney Colvin exhibit varied and significant traits of the heroic yet very human man as well as of the brilliant writer waging an unequal warfare with life...