"Washington Irving Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories ""Rip Van Winkle"" (1819) and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (1820), both of which appear in his collection, ""The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent."" His historical works include biographies of Oliver Goldsmith, Islamic prophet Muhammad, and George Washington, as well as several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Alhambra, Christopher Columbus, and the Moors. Irving served as the U.S. ambassador to"
"Rip Van Winkle (1921 film) Rip Van Winkle is a 1921 American silent fantasy film directed by Edward Ludwig and starring Thomas Jefferson and Milla Davenport in oft-filmed story made famous in the 19th century by Thomas Jefferson's father, Joseph Jefferson. T. Jefferson had starred in a 1914 feature-length version of the story which was re-released in 1921 just as this film was premiering. However, they should not be confused as the same film, they are two different films starring the same actor. Rip Van Winkle is an adventurer who comes across a group of strange individuals while roaming the"
"Catskill mountains. Upon drinking a strange concoction of theirs, he falls asleep and wakes up 20 years later. Rip Van Winkle (1921 film) Rip Van Winkle is a 1921 American silent fantasy film directed by Edward Ludwig and starring Thomas Jefferson and Milla Davenport in oft-filmed story made famous in the 19th century by Thomas Jefferson's father, Joseph Jefferson. T. Jefferson had starred in a 1914 feature-length version of the story which was re-released in 1921 just as this film was premiering. However, they should not be confused as the same film, they are two different films starring the same"
"trying to bail out the family firm financially but eventually had to declare bankruptcy. With no job prospects, he continued writing throughout 1817 and 1818. In the summer of 1817, he visited Walter Scott, beginning a lifelong personal and professional friendship. Irving composed the short story ""Rip Van Winkle"" overnight while staying with his sister Sarah and her husband, Henry van Wart in Birmingham, England, a place that inspired other works, as well. In October 1818, Irving's brother William secured for Irving a post as chief clerk to the United States Navy and urged him to return home. Irving turned"
"that the city and the whole Empire had become Christian. This Christian story is recounted by Islam and appears in a famous Sura of the Quran, Sura Al-Kahf. The version recalls a group of young monotheists escaping from persecution within a cave and emerging hundreds of years later. The story of ""Rip Van Winkle"" itself is widely thought to have been based on Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal's German folktale ""Peter Klaus"", which is a shorter story set in a German village. It tells of a goatherd named Peter Klaus who goes looking for a lost goat. He finds some men"
"farming. The Cross Timbers is one of the least disturbed natural places on Earth, with some of the ancient post oak forest appearing just as it did 6,000 years ago. Washington Irving, the famous American author best known for ""Rip Van Winkle"" and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"", visited Indian Territory in the autumn of 1832. Irving's journey began and ended in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma. He probably passed somewhere south of Pink on or about November 1, 1832 on the return trip to Fort Gibson. His travels were chronicled in ""A Tour of the Prairies"" in which he described the"
"Sunnyside (Tarrytown, New York) Sunnyside (1835) is a historic house on 10 acres (4 ha) along the Hudson River, in Tarrytown, New York. It was the home of the American author Washington Irving, best known for his short stories, such as ""Rip Van Winkle"" (1819) and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (1820). This cottage-like estate, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962, reflects Dutch Colonial Revival, Scottish Gothic, and Tudor Revival influences, with its wisteria-covered entrance and jagged crow-stepped gable. In some sense, Sunnyside began almost 200 years before Irving with Wolfert Acker (sometimes spelled Wolfert Eckert), a Dutch-American inhabitant"
"the eagle's left claw in the Great Seal of the United States. Any review of the legacy of New Netherland is complicated by the enormous impact of Washington Irving's satirical ""A History of New York"" and its famous fictional author Diedrich Knickerbocker. Irving's romantic vision of an enlightened, languid Dutch yeomanry dominated the popular imagination about the colony since its publication in 1809. To this day, many mistakenly believe that Irving's two most famous short stories, ""Rip Van Winkle"" and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"", are based on actual folk tales of Dutch peasants in the Hudson Valley. The tradition"
"memorial exhibit. In 1992, this painting was featured in the ""An Exhibit of American Painting, 1815–1865: from the M. and M. Karolik Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston."" ""Dismissal from School on an October Afternoon"" was not Inman's only work influenced by Irving. Inman was particularly interested in Rip van Winkle. In 1823, ""Rip Van Winkle Awakening from His Long Sleep"" was painted. Several years later Inman painted his ""James Henry Hackett as Rip Van Winkle"". There is also an undated sketch titled ""Rip Van Winkle"". James Cozzens commissioned the painting. Ownership soon passed to William P. Jones."
"stories. Irving made several other trips up the Hudson as a teenager, including an extended visit to Johnstown, New York, where he passed through the Catskill Mountains region, the setting for ""Rip Van Winkle"". ""[O]f all the scenery of the Hudson"", Irving wrote later, ""the Kaatskill Mountains had the most witching effect on my boyish imagination"". The 19-year-old Irving began writing letters to the New York ""Morning Chronicle"" in 1802, submitting commentaries on the city's social and theater scene under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. The name, which purposely evoked the writer's Federalist leanings, was the first of many pseudonyms Irving"
"in some other free states. Seward also signed legislation to establish public education for all children, leaving it up to local jurisdictions as to how that would be supplied (some had segregated schools). New York culture bloomed in the first half of the 19th century: in 1809 Washington Irving wrote the satirical ""A History of New York"" under the pen name Diedrich Knickerbocker, and in 1819 he based ""Rip Van Winkle"" and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" in Hudson Valley towns. Thomas Cole's Hudson River School was established in the 1830s by showcasing dramatic landscapes of the Hudson Valley. The"
"in 1809, where he wrote the satire, 'A History of New York'. Later, he wrote the short stories Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow which take place regionally. The Kinderhook school district is named ""Ichabod Crane"". for the Irving character, Ichabod Crane, which was based on the original Kinderhook schoolmaster named Jesse Merwin. Irving and Merwin became friends in Kinderhook, where they boarded together at the Van Ness home, and the two friends continued a pen-pal correspondence for thirty years. The Columbia County Historical Society (New York) owns the original Kinderhook Schoolhouse named after the Irving character"
"tales including ""Rip van Winkle"" (1819) and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (1820). Nathaniel Hawthorne published the first part of his ""Twice-Told Tales"" in 1837. Edgar Allan Poe wrote his tales of mystery and imagination between 1832 and 1849. Classic stories are ""The Fall of the House of Usher"", ""The Tell-Tale Heart"", ""The Cask of Amontillado"", ""The Pit and the Pendulum"", and the first detective story, ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue"". In ""The Philosophy of Composition"" (1846) Poe argued that a literary work should be short enough for a reader to finish in one sitting. In Germany, the first"
"Joseph Jefferson Joseph Jefferson, commonly known as Joe Jefferson (February 20, 1829 – April 23, 1905), was an American actor. He was the third actor of this name in a family of actors and managers, and one of the most famous of all 19th century American comedians. Jefferson was particularly well known for his adaptation and portrayal of Rip Van Winkle on the stage, reprising the role in several silent film adaptations. Jefferson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father was a scenic designer and actor and his mother an actress. He appeared onstage early in life, often being used"
"of the house stands at Liberty Square at The Walt Disney World Resort's Magic Kingdom; the building serves as a quick service restaurant. Notes Bibliography Further reading Sunnyside (Tarrytown, New York) Sunnyside (1835) is a historic house on 10 acres (4 ha) along the Hudson River, in Tarrytown, New York. It was the home of the American author Washington Irving, best known for his short stories, such as ""Rip Van Winkle"" (1819) and ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (1820). This cottage-like estate, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962, reflects Dutch Colonial Revival, Scottish Gothic, and Tudor Revival influences, with"
"Sophie Gimber Kuhn Sophie Gimber Kuhn (8 November 1838 – 1867) was an English actress from Temple Bar, London who came to the United States on a visit with her parents. She performed at the Winter Garden Theatre in September 1860. Her first role was ""Nelly"" in ""All Hallow Eve"". In a production which opened on December 24, 1860, Kuhn played ""Lowenna"" in Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. The adaptation at the Winter Garden was produced by Joseph Jefferson, who played the part of Rip Van Winkle. In 1863, along with Kate Denin and Lucille Western, Kuhn performed in"
"was Planquette's first full-length stage work, and although he later wrote twelve more, including ""Rip Van Winkle"", which was a hit in London, he never equalled the international success of this first venture. It broke box-office records in Paris and London, where it set a new long-run record for musical theatre worldwide, and was continually revived in Europe and the US during the rest of the 19th century. Since then it has remained in the repertoire for occasional productions in France. There are conflicting accounts of the genesis of the piece. According to the Académie Nationale de l'Opérette, Gabet and"
"as Balfour. He also reformed the local agriculture, enclosing fields and constructing farm buildings. William Irving was born c. 1740 in the small hamlet of Quholm in the northeast of the island. He became a sailor before emigrating to New York in 1763. One of his sons was Washington Irving, author of Rip van Winkle and the first American author to gain international recognition. Marjory Meason, a native of Shapinsay, was the last person to be executed in Orkney, in 1728. She was a young servant, hanged in Kirkwall for the murder of a child. The execution is recorded as"
"in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War in a village at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains where Rip Van Winkle lives, a Dutch-American villager. One autumn day, Van Winkle wanders into the mountains with his dog Wolf to escape his wife's nagging. He hears his name called out and sees a man wearing antiquated Dutch clothing; he is carrying a keg up the mountain and requires help. Together, the men and Wolf proceed to a hollow in which Rip discovers the source of thunderous noises: a group of ornately dressed, silent, bearded men who are"
"pathos and romantic feeling. ""Le Chevalier Gaston"" was produced in 1879 with little success. In 1880 came ""Les Voltigeurs du 32ieme"" which had a long run in London in 1887 as ""The Old Guard"", and ""La Cantiniére"", which was translated into English as ""Nectarine"", though never produced. In 1882 ""Rip Van Winkle"" was produced in London and subsequently given in Paris as ""Rip"", in both cases with great success. The libretto is an adaptation by H. B. Farnie of Washington Irving's famous tale. In 1884 the phenomenon of an opera by a French composer being produced in London before being"
"columns in, ""The San Francisco Examiner"" ""Rediscovering San Francisco"" and ""Passing By."" He sold his first short story in the 1920s.<ref name=""obit""/ Many of his short stories appeared in The American Mercury in the 1920s and 30s. He won a Newbery Medal Honor in 1937 for ""Whistler's Van"". Some of his most famous works include: ""The Vineyard"" and ""Ark of Empire: San Francisco's Montgomery Block"". ""The Vineyard"" tells the story of Napa Valley citizens and their love for the land. The main character, Alda Pendle, mastered the art of viticulture from her father. After her father’s death, Pendle’s skills make"
"premiered at the Queen's Hall and was well reviewed, although reviewers commented on the influence of earlier composers on the score. In 1897, Leoni's operatic version of ""Rip van Winkle"" was presented at Her Majesty's Theatre. The libretto, based on the story by Washington Irving, was by William Akerman. The score was through-composed, with no spoken dialogue, and received qualified praise from critics. One wrote: ""Colour of a sort there is in the music, and some dramatic point, but of downright individuality and humour there is little"" (""The Times""). Another commented, ""Mr Leoni's instrumentation is clever, but there is a"
"Freire. The third cycle is marked by social poetry, especially the abolitionist movement, and it includes Castro Alves, Tobias Barreto and Pedro Luís Pereira de Sousa. In the United States, at least by 1818 with William Cullen Bryant's ""To a Waterfowl"", Romantic poetry was being published. American Romantic Gothic literature made an early appearance with Washington Irving's ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (1820) and ""Rip Van Winkle"" (1819), followed from 1823 onwards by the ""Leatherstocking Tales"" of James Fenimore Cooper, with their emphasis on heroic simplicity and their fervent landscape descriptions of an already-exotic mythicized frontier peopled by ""noble savages"","
"of the fictional character Rip van Winkle. The clove was popular with artists and walkers, fleeing the squalor and hubbub of the downstate cities. In particular, artists of the Hudson River School painted the Clove: examples include Asher Brown Durand's 1849 painting ""Kindred Spirits"", depicting fellow artist Thomas Cole, Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, one of the founders of the Arts Student's League had a studio there with Hart and poet William Cullen Bryant, and Sanford Gifford's 1862 work ""Kaaterskill Clove in the Catskills"". Twentieth Century artists such as landscapist Thomas Locker (1937-2012) described the Clove as a vacation spot he returned"
"adaptation the movie is nonsense … but for film historians it is remarkable."" Rip's Dream Rip's Dream ( ) is a 1905 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. ""Rip's Dream"" is based on two sources: the original ""Rip Van Winkle"" story by Washington Irving, and the 1882 operetta version of ""Rip Van Winkle"" (with music by Robert Planquette and libretto by Henri Meilhac, Philippe Gille, and Henry Brougham Farnie). Two elements, the mysterious snake and the village idiot, are Méliès's own creations. Méliès himself plays Rip. His son André appears as a village child carrying a large lantern. (Rip's"
"break free of the strict religious traditions of early settlement. The Romantics rejected rationalism and religious intellect. It appealed to those in opposition of Calvinism, which includes the belief that the destiny of each individual is preordained. Romantic Gothic literature made an early appearance with Washington Irving's ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (1820) and ""Rip Van Winkle"" (1819), There are picturesque ""local color"" elements in Washington Irving's essays and especially his travel books. From 1823 the prolific and popular novelist James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) began publishing his historical romances of frontier and Indian life, to create a unique form of"
"in the early 19th century. American Romanticism was just as multifaceted and individualistic as it was in Europe. Like the Europeans, the American Romantics demonstrated a high level of moral enthusiasm, commitment to individualism and the unfolding of the self, an emphasis on intuitive perception, and the assumption that the natural world was inherently good, while human society was corrupt. Romantic Gothic literature made an early appearance with Washington Irving's ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (1820) and ""Rip Van Winkle"" (1819), There are picturesque ""local color"" elements in Washington Irving's essays and especially his travel books. From 1823 the prolific"
"en fût jamais"" (1770) by Louis-Sébastien Mercier, ""Rip Van Winkle"" (1819) by Washington Irving, ""Looking Backward"" (1888) by Edward Bellamy, and ""When the Sleeper Awakes"" (1899) by H.G. Wells. Prolonged sleep, like the more familiar time machine, is used as a means of time travel in these stories. The earliest work about backwards time travel is uncertain. Samuel Madden's ""Memoirs of the Twentieth Century"" (1733) is a series of letters from British ambassadors in 1997 and 1998 to diplomats in the past, conveying the political and religious conditions of the future. Because the narrator receives these letters from his guardian"
"Winnie Winkle Winnie Winkle was an American comic strip which appeared over a 76-year span (1920–96). Its premise was conceived by Joseph Medill Patterson, but the stories and artwork were by Martin Branner, who wrote the strip for over 40 years. It was one of the first comic strips about working women. The main character was a young woman who had to support her parents and adopted brother, serving as a reflection of the changing role of women in society. It ran in more than 100 newspapers for several decades, and translations of the strip's Sunday pages were made available"
"a fictional work by Washington Irving loosely based on folklore. Nevertheless, Urashima has been labeled the ""Japanese Rip van Winkle"", even in academic folkloristic literature. ""Urashima"" is also a Japanese metaphor similar to ""Rip Van Winkle"" for someone who feels lost in a world that has changed in their absence. This pair of tales may not be the closest matching among the motif group. Writing in the 19th century, Lafcadio Hearn suggested that Irving wrote another piece called ""The Adelantado of the Seven Cities"", based on Portuguese tradition, which bore an even stronger resemblance to Urashima. Japanese art collector William"
"Rip's Dream Rip's Dream ( ) is a 1905 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès. ""Rip's Dream"" is based on two sources: the original ""Rip Van Winkle"" story by Washington Irving, and the 1882 operetta version of ""Rip Van Winkle"" (with music by Robert Planquette and libretto by Henri Meilhac, Philippe Gille, and Henry Brougham Farnie). Two elements, the mysterious snake and the village idiot, are Méliès's own creations. Méliès himself plays Rip. His son André appears as a village child carrying a large lantern. (Rip's friends' lanterns are in fact Bastille Day celebratory lanterns with the initials RF,"
"Winchell Smith saw the potential of the play. He agreed to rewrite it and stage it at the Gaiety Theatre in partnership with Bacon and Golden. Bacon played the lead role. It was first staged in August 1918. A critic said that Lightnin' Bill was as delightful a character as Rip Van Winkle. President Woodrow Wilson attended a show with his wife, and called Golden to his box, where he told him the play was the most entertaining they had ever seen. ""Lightnin""' played for 1,291 performances on Broadway, a record at the time. After ""Lightnin""' closed the cast paraded"
"a stage adaptation of East Lynne at the old Academy of Music in Manhattan. Sophie Gimber Kuhn Sophie Gimber Kuhn (8 November 1838 – 1867) was an English actress from Temple Bar, London who came to the United States on a visit with her parents. She performed at the Winter Garden Theatre in September 1860. Her first role was ""Nelly"" in ""All Hallow Eve"". In a production which opened on December 24, 1860, Kuhn played ""Lowenna"" in Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. The adaptation at the Winter Garden was produced by Joseph Jefferson, who played the part of Rip"