"greatest poets of the nineteenth century were Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Mark Twain (the pen name used by Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was the first major American writer to be born away from the East Coast. Henry James put American literature on the international map with novels like ""The Portrait of a Lady"". At the turn of the twentieth century a strong naturalist movement emerged that comprised writers such as Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, and Jack London. American writers expressed disillusionment following World War I. The short stories and novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the mood of"
"Sam burned portions of his brother's manuscript that he found unsuitable. The work is lost and has never been published. Clemens wed Mary Eleanor ""Mollie"" Stotts in 1854. Their only child, a daughter, Jennie, was born in 1855. She was beloved by her uncle Samuel. When the family moved to Nevada, Jennie attended Sierra Seminary in Carson City about which Sam wrote a piece after visiting her there. Jennie fell ill to spotted fever on January 29, 1864, and died of meningitis, a complication of the illness, on February 1, 1864. Her parents and uncle had stood vigil around her"
"Jeremiah Clemens Jeremiah Clemens (December 28, 1814 – May 21, 1865) was a U.S. senator and novelist from the state of Alabama. He was elected to fill the vacancy left by the death of Dixon Hall Lewis, and served from November 30, 1849 to March 4, 1853. Clemens was the author of ""Tobias Wilson"", one of the first American Civil War novels, and he was also one of the earliest writers of Western novels. Clemens was born in Huntsville, Alabama on December 28, 1814, son of James Clemens, a merchant who had emigrated to Alabama with his wife Minerva (Mills)"
"two years before he received his pilot's license. Piloting also gave him his pen name from ""mark twain"", the leadsman's cry for a measured river depth of two fathoms (12 feet), which was safe water for a steamboat. As a young pilot, Clemens served on the steamer ""A. B. Chambers"" with Grant Marsh, who became famous for his exploits as a steamboat captain on the Missouri River. The two liked each other, and admired one another, and maintained a correspondence for many years after Clemens left the river. While training, Samuel convinced his younger brother Henry to work with him."
"county clerk, and acting attorney general. From 1832 to 1835 he was postmaster in Pall Mall. He speculated unsuccessfully in land and opened four stores which were unsuccessful. In 1835 the Clemens family, which by then included five children, moved to Missouri, initially to the town of Florida, where his son Samuel, who was to become famous as the author Mark Twain, was born in November 30, 1835. John Clemens practiced law and operated a general store in Florida for several years before moving to Hannibal in 1839. His retail business ventures were not successful, but he was active in"
"Magazine"", and as the author of books such as ""A Modern Instance"" and ""The Rise of Silas Lapham"", Howells exerted a strong opinion and was influential in establishing his theories. Samuel Clemens (1835–1910), better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, grew up in the Mississippi River frontier town of Hannibal, Missouri. Early 19th-century American writers tended to be flowery, sentimental, or ostentatious—partially because they were still trying to prove that they could write as elegantly as the English. Ernest Hemingway, in ""Green Hills of Africa"", wrote that many Romantics ""wrote like exiled English colonials from an England of"
"firm grew deeper in debt, Clemens was forced to shut down the business having formally declared bankruptcy on April 18, 1894. The firms most productive years, although to no avail financially, took place from 1891 to 1893. Notable authors published, including Clemens, were Leo Tolstoy, Henry George, and Walt Whitman. Charles L. Webster and Company In 1884, author and journalist Samuel Clemens, popularly known as Mark Twain, founded the subscription publishing firm of Charles L. Webster and Company. The firm was named after Clemens' niece’s husband Charles L. Webster whom Clemens appointed the firm's business director. The formation of the"
"Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was employed as a newspaper reporter before becoming famous as a novelist, and in this position he published many satirical articles. He left two separate journalism positions, Nevada (1864) fleeing a challenge to duel and San Francisco fleeing outraged police officials because his satire and fiction were often taken for the truthful accounts they were presented as. Ironically, the accuracy of many newspaper and autobiographical accounts used to follow the early life of Samuel Clemens are in doubt. Newspapers still print occasional news satire features, in particular on April Fools' Day. This news is specifically identified"
"during his 42 years serving in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was actively engaged in farming in Lincoln County throughout his life and the author of several publications on parliamentary law. Following his death in 1964, the Joanna Dam was officially renamed to honor the man who was a longtime supporter of the project. The lake is named for author Mark Twain, (pen name of Samuel Clemens) who, although he lived and wrote about many other places, often delighted audiences and readers with colorful stories of his native Missouri. Clarence Cannon Dam and Mark Twain Lake provide opportunities for"
"Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum is located on 206-208 Hill Street, Hannibal, Missouri, on the west bank of the Mississippi River in the United States. It was the home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as author Mark Twain, from 1844 to 1853. Clemens found the inspiration for many of his stories, including the white picket fence, while living here. It has been open to the public as a museum since 1912, and was designated a National Historic Landmark on December 29, 1962. It is located in the Mark Twain Historic District."
"only to dismiss her in 1909. The original, saltbox-design house was destroyed in 1953 in a fire, with a new house subsequently built as a replacement. On December 24, 1909, Clemens' youngest daughter Jean Clemens died at Stormfield, with the cause of death believed to have been a heart attack during an epileptic seizure while taking a bath. Clemens subsequently wrote “The Death of Jean”, believed to be the last work he ever completed. Suffering from a heart ailment in the spring of 1910, Samuel Clemens sought to recuperate in Bermuda but returned to Stormfield April 12, 1910. He died"
"Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site The Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site is a publicly owned property in Florida, Missouri, maintained by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, that preserves the cabin where the author Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835. The cabin is protected within a modern museum building that also includes a public reading room, several of Twain's first editions, a handwritten manuscript of ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"", and furnishings from Twain's Connecticut home. The historic site is adjacent to Mark Twain State Park on a peninsula at the western end of man-made Mark Twain"
"Samuel Clemens, who used the pseudonym Mark Twain. His stories became staples of Midwestern lore. Twain's hometown of Hannibal, Missouri, is a tourist attraction offering a glimpse into the Midwest of his time. Inland canals in Ohio and Indiana constituted another important waterway, which connected with Great Lakes and Ohio River traffic. The commodities that the Midwest funneled into the Erie Canal down the Ohio River contributed to the wealth of New York City, which overtook Boston and Philadelphia. During the mid-19th century, the region got its first railroads, and the railroad junction in Chicago became the world's largest. During"
"a focal point in these events. Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum The Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum is located on 206-208 Hill Street, Hannibal, Missouri, on the west bank of the Mississippi River in the United States. It was the home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as author Mark Twain, from 1844 to 1853. Clemens found the inspiration for many of his stories, including the white picket fence, while living here. It has been open to the public as a museum since 1912, and was designated a National Historic Landmark on December 29, 1962. It is located"
"era of esthetic dentistry. At that time fillings were usually made of gold in the anterior region. For the production and distribution of ""Jenkins Porcelain Enamel"" he founded the manufactory ""Klewe & Co"". His personal friend, a certain Samuel Langhorne Clemens bought the manufacturing and distribution rights for the US market. This man became known by his pseudonym as the writer Mark Twain. Together with Willoughby D. Miller, who set up in 1890 the pioneering and still valid theory that bacteria of the oral flora degrade carbohydrates to acids, that damage the enamel and allow bacteria to access and destroy"
"important gestative period of his writing life. Sam discovered the true essence of his craft…"" Mark Twain in Nevada The use of the pen name of Mark Twain first occurred in Samuel Clemens's writing while in the Nevada Territory which he had journeyed to with his brother. Clemens/Twain lived in Nevada from 1861 to 1864, and visited the area twice after leaving. Historians such as Peter Messent see Clemens's time in Nevada as ""the third major formative period of Mark Twain's career"" (after his time in Hannibal and upon the Mississippi) due to his encounters with ""writers and humorists who"
"before finally relocating once again to Keokuk, Iowa, in the mid-1870s, where he lived for the remainder of his life. There he at times practiced law, farmed chickens, and worked at inventing various gadgets. Unfortunately, his endeavors were largely unsuccessful, and his main source of income was his brother Sam, who visited often after their mother moved to join Clemens and Mollie. Orion spent much of his time in Keokuk working on his autobiography, which Sam encouraged him to write as an example of the failure of the American dream. Orion Clemens died December 11, 1897. There are reports that"
"an intense electrical storm, Clemens, now writing under his penname Mark Twain, presented its survival through the lightning strikes as a mystical omen of Union victory. With this, Twain publicly had shown his newly undivided devotion to the Union. He also portrayed an incident in San Francisco as an omen for the fall of the Confederate cause when all the lights suddenly went out at a meeting of Copperheads (Northern Democrats calling for immediate peace). Twain would go on to protest a clause in a proposed Nevada constitution to disfranchise any that voluntarily bore arms for the Confederacy, claiming that,"
"has given me a good many privileges; valuable privileges; privileges which are not granted to younger persons. Little by little I hope to get together courage enough to wear white clothes all through the winter, in New York. It will be a great satisfaction to me to show off in this way; and perhaps the largest of all the satisfactions will be the knowledge that every scoffer, of my sex, will secretly envy me and wish he dared to follow my lead. Mark Twain Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens, was an"
"that he would ""go out with it"" as well; he died the day after the comet returned. He was lauded as the ""greatest humorist this country has produced"", and William Faulkner called him ""the father of American literature"". Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens on November 30, 1835, in Florida, Missouri, the sixth of seven children born to Jane (""née"" Lampton; 1803–1890), a native of Kentucky, and John Marshall Clemens (1798–1847), a native of Virginia. His parents met when his father moved to Missouri, and they were married in 1823. Twain was of Cornish, English, and Scots-Irish descent. Only"
"first child, Langdon Clemens, was born in November but was premature. Olivia contracted typhoid fever and became very ill. The family then moved to Elmira, so that Olivia’s family could watch over her and Langdon. In 1871, the family moved again, to Hartford, Connecticut. They rented a large house in the Nook Farm neighborhood and quickly became important members of the social and literary scene there. They were well off due to Samuel Clemens' earnings from his books and lectures, and Olivia's inheritance, and they lived lavishly. In 1874, they moved into a distinctive house they had had built on"
"States. His stories of middle and upper class life set in the 1880s and 1890s are highly regarded among scholars of American fiction. His most popular novel, ""The Rise of Silas Lapham"" (1885), depicts a man who, ironically, falls from materialistic fortune by his own mistakes. Other early American realists include Samuel Clemens (1835–1910), better known by his pen name of Mark Twain, author of ""The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1884), Stephen Crane (1871–1900), and Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832–1899). Twain's style, based on vigorous, realistic, colloquial American speech, gave American writers a new appreciation of their national voice. Twain was"
"Army against Alabama, but he made no secret of his pro-Union views and wrote to various members of the Lincoln administration and the United States War Department advising them on how best to mollify the South peaceably and how to deal with Reconstruction upon the Confederacy's inevitable defeat. His death from natural causes on May 21, 1865, came too soon for him to take an active role in the reconciliation of the nation. Clemens was most famous outside of Alabama during his lifetime as a novelist. ""Bernard Lyle"" (Philadelphia, 1853) and ""Mustang Grey"" (1857) were at least partly autobiographical novels"
"""Union"" and the ""Hornet"" in 1827; the ""Grampus"" in 1828; the ""Patriot"" and the ""Kenawa"" in 1829; the ""Car of Commerce"" and the ""Portsmouth"" in 1830; the ""Moselle"" in 1838. Mark Twain noted a bad boiler explosion which occurred aboard the steamboat ""Pennsylvania"" in 1858. Among the injured passengers was Henry Clemens, his brother, whose skin had been badly scalded. Twain came to visit Henry in an improvised hospital. This is how he described the long painful death of his brother: ""For forty-eight hours I labored at the bedside of my poor burned and bruised but uncomplaining brother...and then the"
"Samuel L. Clemens (later known as Mark Twain) who served as a cub pilot from September 27, 1857 until June 5, 1858, with a two-month break during the repairs from the ""Vicksburg"" collision. The end of Twain's service on the ""Pennsylvania"" was brought about by his stormy relationship with its pilot, William Brown, which is described in ""Life on the Mississippi"". Just prior to his departure, he arranged a post for his brother, Henry on the steamship as ""Mud Clerk"". On June 13, 1858, the ""Pennsylvania"" was steaming near Ship Island, just below Memphis, Tennessee when its boiler exploded. Estimates"
"in Philadelphia in around 1905, fashion designer Countess Fabricotti, as well as several from Paget herself. In 1906 Dix held her first exhibition, ""Exhibition of Portrait Miniature by Miss Eulabee Dix"", at the Fine Art Society on London's New Bond Street, where she exhibited 24 works. That same year she also held shows at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. In New York Dix had the opportunity to paint writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pseudonym Mark Twain. In 1908 she did the last painting of him from life. Dix"
"sleeping on a sofa in the room. Susy developed delirium, at one point clutching an article of her mother's clothing and crying because she thought her mother had died, and at another looking out the windows at the traffic and singing, ""Up go the trolley cars for Mark Twain's daughter. Down go the trolley cars for Mark Twain's daughter."" Eventually she lost her sight and lapsed into a coma. On August 18, 1896, she died at age twenty-four; her family was devastated. Clemens was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira. The poem on her headstone was adapted from a poem"
"1879, and treated as a confidant. The author, Samuel Clemens, grew up in the presence of his parents' and other Hannibal, Missourians' slaves and listened to their stories; an uncle, too, was a slave owner. Jim's is one of the several spoken dialects called deliberate in a prefatory note. Academic studies include Lisa Cohen Minnick's 2004 ""Dialect and Dichotomy: Literary Representations of African American Speech"" and Raphaell Berthele's 2000 ""Translating African-American Vernacular English into German: The problem of 'Jim' in Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn."". The character is introduced at the beginning of Chapter Two, seen at midnight by the two"
"Lewis died from complications related to his morbid obesity Clemens was elected by the Alabama legislature to complete his term as United States Senator from Alabama, serving from November 30, 1849 to March 1853. After his term he relocated to Memphis, Tennessee due to business interests, particularly his co-ownership of a newspaper, The Memphis Eagle and Enquirer, which he also edited. Though a Democrat Clemens was a staunch Unionist in his political views who argued that talk of secession should be postponed until such time as Abraham Lincoln mentioned emancipating the slaves (a position whose practitioners were known as ""wait"
"civic affairs. He served as a steamboat and railroad commissioner and became a county judge. He served in the Missouri militia but did not serve in the debacle of the Honey War. John Clemens was the father of five sons (including Orion) and two daughters. He died in March 1847 from pleurisy and pneumonia. The cabin in which the Clemens family is believed to have lived in Fentress County, Tennessee, is displayed as part of the collection of the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tennessee. John Marshall Clemens John Marshall Clemens (August 11, 1798 – March 24, 1847) was the"
"a young man, Clemens worked in his father's general store, and later as an apprentice at a local newspaper, before moving to St. Louis, Missouri. In St. Louis, Clemens began studying law under attorney Edward Bates, who later served as Attorney General for President Abraham Lincoln. After his father's death in 1847, Clemens returned to Hannibal and purchased the local newspaper, then became the owner of ""The Hannibal Journal"" where Samuel worked for him. Unable to make a successful living as a journalist there, Clemens relocated to Muscatine, Iowa, in 1853 to run the Muscatine Journal. Just a year later"
"John Marshall Clemens John Marshall Clemens (August 11, 1798 – March 24, 1847) was the father of author Mark Twain. Clemens was the scion of a Virginia family that owned both land and slaves in that state. The Clemenses were a Cornish American family originally from Looe in Cornwall, Great Britain. He was born in Campbell County, Virginia, the eldest Clemens. He was named after U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall. His father died in 1805, whereupon the family moved to Kentucky. Pamela Clemens remarried in 1809, and John Clemens started working at age 11, as a clerk at an iron"
"Stormfield Stormfield was the mansion built in Redding, Connecticut for author Samuel Clemens, best known as Mark Twain, who lived there from 1908 until his death in 1910. Clemens derived the property's name from the short story ""Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven."" The building was destroyed in a 1923 fire, with a smaller replica built at the same site the following year. After meeting biographer Albert Bigelow Paine in 1906 while living in New York City, Clemens decided to purchase 195 acres of land in Redding where Paine lived, purchasing his first parcel there March 24, 1906, and buying additional"