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	§11. George Ticknor. XXV. Scholars. Vol. 18. Later National Literature, Part III. The Cambridge History of ...
		Of the Göttingen group there remains that one who was on the whole the soundest scholar, and who in time became the first American scholar to achieve a permanent international reputation.
		George Ticknor was born in Boston in 1791, of parents who were both teachers.
		From 1810 Ticknor read law and in 1813 was admitted to the bar, but he gave up practice in a year.
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	§12. Training and Travels. XXV. Scholars. Vol. 18. Later National Literature, Part III. The Cambridge History of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ticknor was as much at home with the “big Whigs” as with the grand Tories, especially the great Tory of Abbotsford; Whig Toriusve mihi nullo discrimine agetur, he might have said; but he could not abide a Philistine or a Bohemian.
		This second residence in Europe Ticknor undertook not primarily as a student but as a ripe scholar; and although he had as yet produced no great work, he was everywhere received as one whose standing was assured.
		Arriving at home in June, 1838, Ticknor settled down to research, to extensive correspondence with many friends, both European and American, to the collecting of Spanish books, and to the writing of his History of Spanish Literature, which was published in 1849 and was at once recognized as a work of international standing.
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	George Ticknor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Ticknor (August 1, 1791 – January 26, 1871), was an American teacher and author.
		In 1810 Ticknor began the study of law, and he was admitted to the bar in 1813.
		During his professorship Ticknor advocated the creation of departments, the grouping of students in divisions according to proficiency, and the establishment of the elective system, and reorganized his own department.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Ticknor (709 words)

	George Ticknor
		George Ticknor—invited in 1816 to become Smith professor of the French and Spanish languages and literatures—may be called the first Harvard scholar who would be warmly welcomed into the University faculty of 2005, just as he was the first (outside the traditional fields of divinity and rhetoric) to hold a named chair in the humanities.
		As a result, when Ticknor did reach Paris, he was greeted as the newest representative of the upstart American republic and what it signified to European liberals.
		(His services are commemorated by Ticknor Lounge in Boylston Hall, the present home of Romance language studies.) But he chose to reside in Boston rather than Cambridge; his elegant townhouse at the corner of Park and Beacon became the setting for a life closer to that of a prosperous patrician than of a dry-as-dust pedagogue.
	www.harvardmagazine.com /on-line/010543.html (825 words)

	Take A Joy Read, Canada! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		George Ticknor is trying to reconcile his own failure with the success of his boyhood friend, the famous American historian William Prescott.
		Set in an imagined nineteenth-century Boston, Ticknor was inspired by The Life of William Hickling Prescott, written by George Ticknor after his friend's death and published in the 1860s.
		George Ticknor's life has been reduced to a series of awkward meetings, failed dinner parties, and other misfortunes he is loath to own up to.
	www.lpg.ca /JoyRead/marapr05/titles/ticknor.htm (174 words)

	The LUCILE Project - Ticknor & Co.
		A reorganization was effected involving a new partnership comprising Thomas Ticknor and George F. Godfrey, of Bangor, Maine, who was to bring in new capital of $25,000.
		The new firm, to be known as Ticknor and Co., offered to pay Osgood's obligations at a third of their face value, and the creditors accepted...
		Ticknor and Co., so far as is known, produced the following editions of Lucile (mostly continuations of Osgood and Co. editions) but no editions of Meredith's works.
	sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu /lucile/publishers/ticknor/Ticknor.htm (1034 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ticknor: Books: Sheila Heti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		As Heti notes, she has based this slender, first-person work on American George Ticknor's mid-19th-century biography of historian William Hickling Prescott, but the lonely, querulous voice of her invented George is all her own.
		The book opens as George steps out on a rainy Boston night to answer a rare, longed for invitation to dinner at the illustrious Prescotts of Beacon Street; he and William Prescott were childhood friends.
		George, by contrast, is poor, morose and covetous.
	www.amazon.ca /Ticknor-Sheila-Heti/dp/0887841910 (427 words)

	Boldtype
		When George Ticknor's Life of William Hickling Prescott was published in 1864, it received rapturous notices, and reviewers were quick to point out that the long-standing friendship between Prescott and Ticknor made the latter an ideal Boswell.
		As a fretful Ticknor navigates his way through the rain-soaked streets of Boston to Prescott's house ("But I am not a late man. I hate to be late."), he recalls his decidedly one-sided lifelong friendship with his great subject, a friendship that Heti has estranged from its factual moorings.
		Unlike the real-life Ticknor, this one is an embittered also-ran, full of plans and intentions never realized — coveting his friend's wife, writing letters that never get answered, working on essays destined to be rejected — always alive to the fashionable whispers behind his back.
	beta.boldtype.com /?cid=3811 (408 words)

	BPL - Former Trustees - George Ticknor
		A graduate of Dartmouth College in 1807 at age 16, George Ticknor would become Harvard University's first professor of Modern Languages and Literature, and was the author of History of Spanish Literature, among other histories and biographies.
		Ticknor's detailed contributions on the original library proposal to the City Council set the standard for the public library movement.
		In 1895, a portrait of George Ticknor by Thomas Sully was donated to the Library by his daughter Anna and now hangs in the Rare Books Reading Room.
	www.bpl.org /general/trustees/ticknor.htm (231 words)

	U of T Magazine -- University of Toronto
		It was Ticknor's voice - the style of his writing - that provided Heti with the inspiration for her new book and its central character.
		She explains that Ticknor wrote in an exceedingly reverent and formal style, leaving the reader to imagine what was going on between the lines.
		In life, George Ticknor was a respected and influential professor of belles-lettres.
	www.magazine.utoronto.ca /05spring/Heti.asp (1673 words)

	The Bicycle: Ticknor... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is largely told from the point of view of George Ticknor, the protagonist.
		Heti declares in a note at the end of Ticknor that she extracted phrases from Ticknor's own works (for he is an actually historical figure), from the works of Florence Nightingale and from Sofia Tolstoy (Leo Nikolaevich's wife, presumably).
		One reason she does so, reportedly, is because she found certain turns of phrases to be charming and they enabled her to write in the style of the turn of the century.
	thebicycle.artmyth.net /archives/2005/05/ticknor.html (651 words)

	George Ticknor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		George Ticknor (August 1, 1791 - January 26, 1871), was an American teacher and author.
		In 1805 George entered the junior class at Dartmouth, where he graduated in 1807.
		During the next three years he studied Latin and Greek with Rev. Dr John Sylvester Gardiner, rector of Trinity, Boston, and a pupil of Dr Samuel Parr.
	www.wapipedia.com /wikipedia/mobiletopic.aspx?cur_title=George_Ticknor (716 words)

	Ticknor, George - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		TICKNOR, GEORGE [Ticknor, George], 1791-1871, American author and teacher, b.
		California on his mind the easel and pen of pioneer George Duglas Brewerton.
		Charles Dickens, George Dolby, and New York in 1867-68.(Critical Essay)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/t/ticknorg1.asp (322 words)

	George Ticknor Samuel Parr Portugal Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American Spanish Reference law August 1 France trustee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ticknor was born in Boston, Massachusetts.He received his early education from his father, Elisha Ticknor (1757-1821), former principal of the Franklin public school and a founder of the Massachusetts Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of the system of free primary schools in Boston, and of the first New England savings bank.
		The story is told through the voice of George Ticknor, who is trying to reconcile his failure with the success of his boyhood friend, William Prescott.
		George Ticknor (an actual 19th Century Boston historian) is on his way to a dinner party he'd really rather not attend for a more successful, notable childhood pal.
	en.powerwissen.com /svrn7znu5hFa4LRHqeVAiw%3D%3D_George_Ticknor.html (792 words)

	George Ticknor
		George Ticknor, along with George Bancroft and Edward Everett, was one of the first New Englanders to study the new German literature, philosophy, and theology at the University of Göttingen from 1815 to 1817.
		Emphasis was placed on the "higher criticism," a term popularized by Eichhorn, rather than on the more traditional biblical languages and textual studies.
		Although Ticknor himself seems not to have taken advantage of this education--at least, not in any Transcendental sense--his German experience is important because it stimulated interest in German ideas at a crucial time during the formative years of American Transcendentalism.
	www.alcott.net /alcott/home/champions/Ticknor.html (150 words)

	George Ticknor 1807
		Furniture and art work from the Ticknor library at his home on Park Street, at the head of Boston Common and across the street from the State House, were subsequently donated to Dartmouth by the family of William Dexter.
		George Ticknor may have gone to Dartmouth instead of Harvard because his father Elisha Ticknor 1783 became a preceptor at Moor's Indian Charity School for three years under President John Wheelock, to whom Elisha Ticknor may have felt a certain loyalty.
		Ticknor's Life of William Hickling Prescott was first published in Boston by Ticknor and Fields in 1864.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~library/Library_Bulletin/Nov1991/LB-N91-KCramer.html (1152 words)

	The Ticknor Society
		The Ticknor Society is an organization of book collectors, booksellers, librarians, historians, archivists, conservators, printers, publishers, writers, and all lovers and readers of books.
		George Ticknor was a prominent Boston collector, scholar, and library supporter.
		Anna Eliot Ticknor was an early member of the Massachusetts Library Commission (founded in 1890, the first state library commission in the United States) and an active promoter of literacy for all.
	www.ticknor.org (300 words)

	Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge - Ticknor, George (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		George Ticknor represents banks, finance companies, public and private investment funds, and other financial institutions in financings with emphasis on syndicated acquisition financing.
		George also represents private equity, sponsor and other investor groups making investments and acquisitions.
		George Ticknor was among the leading lawyers featured in the recently published Chambers USA 2005 Client's Guide as well as the Chambers USA 2004 Client's Guide.
	www.eapdlaw.com /professionals/detail.aspx?id=fa577577-34d7-43c6-b2dd-3b9a92271b0a (179 words)

	Ticknor (George and Anna), The Travel Journals of
		Ticknor wrote: "He told me a great deal of the history of his early feelings and habits--of the impressions of extreme discontent under which he wrote Childe Harold.
		Ticknor's account of reactions in London to the Battle of Waterloo, which occurred during his first visit, is of special interest to students of history.
		On visiting the home of Goethe in Weimar, George Ticknor wrote: "[the house] as it is now exhibited, seemed to me a monument of the vanity of a man who was spoiled by life.
	www.il.proquest.com /products_umi/descriptions/Ticknor-George-and-Anna-493.shtml (352 words)

	Anne McDermid & Associates-Literary Agency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ticknor, the highly-anticipated first novel by the author of the acclaimed collection The Middle Stories, is a brilliant, nuanced tale about friendship, love, loneliness, and death.
		In Heti's novel, Ticknor's life has been reduced to a series of awkward meetings, failed dinner parties and other misfortunes that he is loathe to recognize as his own.
		Situated in the complicated and contradictory moments that make friendship both so tenuous a relationship and so difficult to extract oneself from, Ticknor's fixated thoughts about his and Prescott's dissimilar fates lead him through a litany of rationalisations and recriminations, a psychological maze that is paranoid and harrowing, as well as ludicrous and absurd.
	www.mcdermidagency.com /heti.htm (459 words)

	Vue Weekly : Articles
		Prescott frequently invites Ticknor to his many dinner parties, but Ticknor strongly suspects his friend is only humouring him—that in fact, Prescott might not actually like him at all and regards him as nothing more than a failed writer, a failed socialite and a generally uninteresting person.
		She builds the book around a typically awkward social dilemma for Ticknor: he is bringing a pie to a dinner party at Prescott’s house, but has become soaked by the pouring rain, which has also ruined the pie.
		The most infuriating passages are Ticknor’s letters to various vaguely defined correspondents, in which he repeats himself constantly, restating the same ideas in different words (or sometimes the same words in a slightly different order).
	www.vueweekly.com /articles/default.aspx?i=2147 (525 words)

	McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Sheila Heti
		The actual George Ticknor was a professor of Spanish literature at Harvard, married, socially active, successful and, it seems, instrumental in turning his friend William Prescott toward his study of Hispanic cultures, which resulted in Prescott's famed histories of Mexico, Peru and Phillip II of Spain.
		Ticknor himself penned an autobiography and a biography of Prescott, a copy of which provided Heti with her inspiration.
		Ticknor is Boswell to Prescott's Johnson, who, in her version, is the far more successful of the two—everything her Ticknor isn't—generous, gregarious, married, productive, esteemed and yet reliant on the other to be immortalized in words.
	www.mcsweeneys.net /authorpages/heti/heti16.html (1327 words)

	McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Sheila Heti
		That the actual Ticknor was, apparently, nothing of the sort, only adds to the book's playfulness—unless you're one of those stern types who thinks books about real people ought to have more than a toehold in the truth, in which case, we also recommend you avoid celebrity biographies.
		Ticknor is best known (which is to say, hardly at all) for his biography of historian William H. Prescott.
		Ticknor has somehow construed the invitation as an insult and takes the opportunity to review in fretful detail the course of his and Prescott's relationship, from the earliest stirrings of his friend's success, to its florid phase, to his own slow descent into wretchedness, working for 10 years on a single magazine article.
	www.mcsweeneys.net /authorpages/heti/heti17.html (1258 words)

	Ticknor: A Novel by Sheila Heti \| PopMatters Book Review
		The story, and I use that term fairly loosely, is centered on George Ticknor and William Prescott, two American writers and historians, and is a fictitious re-imagining of their relationship.
		I don't want to go too harsh on Heti as word in the rumour mill suggests that she is something of a rarity in writing circles for someone welding her level of power and influence: she's reportedly a really nice person, and, believe me, that's something worthy of respect.
		Ticknor might not entirely be a wash-out, but for someone of Heti's supposed reputation, readers may be well advised to side-step this one and stick with the historical accounts instead.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/t/ticknor-a-novel.shtml (973 words)

	BookRags: George Bancroft Biography
		George Bancroft (3 October 1800-17 January 1891) was an important factor in the flowering of New England Romanticism in the early nineteenth century.
		Like other New England intellectuals, such as George Ticknor, and Edward Everett, he was attracted to the new German scholarship, and enrolled at the University of Gottingen.
		A strong advocate of President Abraham Lincoln's policies, Bancroft was an advisor and speechwriter for President Andrew Johnson, and was rewarded in 1867 by an appointment as minister to Berlin.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/george-bancroft-dlb (845 words)

	Curtis, George Ticknor - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Curtis, George Ticknor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He opposed slavery and served as defense attorney in the Dred Scott case in 1857, in which the US Supreme Court held slaves were not citizens and thus had no constitutional protection.
		He wrote two studies vindicating failed Union General George B McClellan (1886, 1887).
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Curtis%2c+George+Ticknor (136 words)

	George Ticknor Curtis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		George Ticknor Curtis (November 28, 1812 - 1894) was a U.S. author, writer, historian and lawyer.
		Curtis was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard and then Harvard Law School.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Ticknor_Curtis (322 words)

	TICKNOR, GEORGE (1791—... - Online Information article about TICKNOR, GEORGE (1791—...
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