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William Cooper Howells

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Description:"Recollections of Life in Ohio, from 1813 to 1840," is a book of rare charm, intelligence and suggestiveness. Not one page of this most delightful and authentic record of things as they were, could be spared. The recollections of Mr Howells, he father of the novelist, relate to a very important period in the history of Ohio, and form a careful and thorough study of the characteristics of a people destined later to develop among them one of the first American commonwealths. They are primarily the personal memoirs of the author, whose family settled in Eastern Ohio at the close of the pioneer epoch; they were Quakers from the English border of Wales and confronted all the novel hardships of the backwoods. These are graphically narrated; also deals with a later period showing the growing anti-slavery feeling of 1840. In his old age William Cooper Howells began to write his recollection of Ohio life in the period from 1813 to 1840. The book was quite completed when he died, and his distinguished set William Dean Howells, the novelist, wrote the concluding chapter and provided the volume with an introduction. William Cooper Howells was a man of high personal character, self-educated for the most part, but of great intelligence, had the philosophic temperament and the literary impulse, published a newspaper for a number of years, started a magazine, wrote poetry, studied medicine, tried his hand at different kinds of business, and in short went through life with all the advantages and all the disadvantages that belonged to a new State like Ohio in that period. This volume is a very valuable one because of the clear and simple accounts it gives of material, intellectual and religious conditions in central Ohio in the period between the War of 1812 and the election of William Henry Harrison in 1840. It is a valuable addition to the literary memorials of a great State. The author's son writes: "The narrative that follows is the story of the first thirty-three years of a life that stretched to eighty-seven. It deals mainly with simple and common things in conditions whose present remoteness may well lend them an air of romance. Such as he depicts the early life of Eastern Ohio, the early life of America was every-where during the whole pioneer period. But I think his account of it is of peculiar value because he brought to the study of persons and things his peculiarly genial intelligence. It is not merely that he saw them clearly, but that he saw them kindly. The unfriendly eye always loses what is best in a prospect, and his eye was never unfriendly. He did not deceive himself concerning the past. He knew that it was often rude, and hard, and coarse; but, under the rough and sordid aspect, he was aware of the warm heart of humanity in which, quite as much as in the brain, all civility lies." The recollections of a man who has always been in private life, and a large portion of his days in very humble circumstances, are contained in this book. The man was honest and amiable and brought up a worthy family. He had one son who has made a great reputation as a writer. This fact and the habit of making a record of the common-place event; which occurred in quiet communities, will account for the preparation of the book. It is perhaps owing to the fact that bis life covered a period when the families on the Ohio river were struggling with poverty, and society was in the process of formation that it is published; and yet thousands of other men could repeat the same story with variations. It is well that such recollections should be photographed, and that we should not depend longer upon the ordinary means of perpetuating, such as memory, family affection, and common conversation. The book is a pleasant picture of life in southeastern and southwestern Ohio in tne period named.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Recollections of Life in Ohio: From 1813-1840. To get started finding Recollections of Life in Ohio: From 1813-1840, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: "Recollections of Life in Ohio, from 1813 to 1840," is a book of rare charm, intelligence and suggestiveness. Not one page of this most delightful and authentic record of things as they were, could be spared. The recollections of Mr Howells, he father of the novelist, relate to a very important period in the history of Ohio, and form a careful and thorough study of the characteristics of a people destined later to develop among them one of the first American commonwealths. They are primarily the personal memoirs of the author, whose family settled in Eastern Ohio at the close of the pioneer epoch; they were Quakers from the English border of Wales and confronted all the novel hardships of the backwoods. These are graphically narrated; also deals with a later period showing the growing anti-slavery feeling of 1840. In his old age William Cooper Howells began to write his recollection of Ohio life in the period from 1813 to 1840. The book was quite completed when he died, and his distinguished set William Dean Howells, the novelist, wrote the concluding chapter and provided the volume with an introduction. William Cooper Howells was a man of high personal character, self-educated for the most part, but of great intelligence, had the philosophic temperament and the literary impulse, published a newspaper for a number of years, started a magazine, wrote poetry, studied medicine, tried his hand at different kinds of business, and in short went through life with all the advantages and all the disadvantages that belonged to a new State like Ohio in that period. This volume is a very valuable one because of the clear and simple accounts it gives of material, intellectual and religious conditions in central Ohio in the period between the War of 1812 and the election of William Henry Harrison in 1840. It is a valuable addition to the literary memorials of a great State. The author's son writes: "The narrative that follows is the story of the first thirty-three years of a life that stretched to eighty-seven. It deals mainly with simple and common things in conditions whose present remoteness may well lend them an air of romance. Such as he depicts the early life of Eastern Ohio, the early life of America was every-where during the whole pioneer period. But I think his account of it is of peculiar value because he brought to the study of persons and things his peculiarly genial intelligence. It is not merely that he saw them clearly, but that he saw them kindly. The unfriendly eye always loses what is best in a prospect, and his eye was never unfriendly. He did not deceive himself concerning the past. He knew that it was often rude, and hard, and coarse; but, under the rough and sordid aspect, he was aware of the warm heart of humanity in which, quite as much as in the brain, all civility lies." The recollections of a man who has always been in private life, and a large portion of his days in very humble circumstances, are contained in this book. The man was honest and amiable and brought up a worthy family. He had one son who has made a great reputation as a writer. This fact and the habit of making a record of the common-place event; which occurred in quiet communities, will account for the preparation of the book. It is perhaps owing to the fact that bis life covered a period when the families on the Ohio river were struggling with poverty, and society was in the process of formation that it is published; and yet thousands of other men could repeat the same story with variations. It is well that such recollections should be photographed, and that we should not depend longer upon the ordinary means of perpetuating, such as memory, family affection, and common conversation. The book is a pleasant picture of life in southeastern and southwestern Ohio in tne period named.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Recollections of Life in Ohio: From 1813-1840. To get started finding Recollections of Life in Ohio: From 1813-1840, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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