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	About Washington Irving
		Irving enjoyed visiting different places and a large part of his life was spent in Europe, particularly England, France, Germany, and Spain.
		During this period, when Irving traveled or was sent on a diplomatic mission, he always had a home and family to which to return.
		Irving's home was publicized throughout the world in lithographs, magazines, and tourists maps.
	www.hudsonvalley.org /education/Background/abt_irving/abt_irving.html (585 words)

	Washington Irving - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early 19th century.
		Irving's grave, marked by the flag, in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York.
		Irving wrote The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1828, the Conquest of Granada a year later, and, the Voyages of the Companions of Columbus in 1831, during his 4 year stay in Spain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Washington_Irving (1073 words)

	John Anderson: Irving Essay
		Irving was heir to the legacy of freedom won by the heroes of the war for American independence, a legacy that marked Irving's contemporaries as the first "lost" generation.
		Irving, the youngest of eight children, was clearly the pet of the family.
		Irving, in typical self-deprecating fashion, wrote that the world was surprised to find a native American with a feather in his hand instead of on his head.
	pages.emerson.edu /faculty/John_Anderson/e_irving.htm (1862 words)

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		Irving's great enjoyment of his intercourse with the Fosters, or his deep regret at parting from them, he is too familiar with his occasional fits of depression to have drawn from their recurrence on his return to Paris any such inference as that to which the lady alludes.
		Irving himself, shortly after this, enlisted in the war, and his letters thereafter breathe patriotic indignation at the insulting proposals of the British and their rumored attack on New York, and all his similes, even those having love for their subject, are martial and bellicose.
		Irving intended to go to Washington and apply for a commission in the regular army, but he was detained at Philadelphia by the affairs of his magazine, until news came in February, 1815, of the close of the war.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/3/1/0/3101/3101.txt (17061 words)

	WASHINGTON IRVING
		Irving's contributions to this miscellany established his reputation as an essayist and wit.
		Irving's mocking tone and comical descriptions of early American life counterbalanced the nationalism prevalent in much American writing of the time: his History made fun of the reverence with which his contemporaries tended to treat the early Dutch colonists.
		Indeed, Irving’s work satirizes nearly every segment of American culture, from its peasants to its literary scions to its “high society.” The author-reader relationship in Irving’s work is therefore somewhat adversarial: he satirizes the beliefs many of his readers held dear.
	www.fcahomeschool.com /samplelessons/biowashingtonirving.htm (736 words)

	PAL: Washington Irving (1783-1859)
		Washington Irving, the famed essayist, biographer, historian, writer and politician, was often referred to as “The Father of American Literature” or “The Father of American Letters”.
		Irving was asked to return to London in 1829 to serve as the Secretary of the United States Legation.
		Irving was honored in England through a medal from the Royal Society of Literature and given an LLD degree from Oxford University.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap3/irving.html (2074 words)

	MSN Encarta - Washington Irving
		His interest in the law was neither deep nor long-lasting, however, and Irving began to contribute satirical essays and sketches to New York newspapers as early as 1802.
		From 1807 to 1808 he was the leading figure in a social group that included his brothers William Irving and Peter Irving and William's brother-in-law James Kirke Paulding; together they wrote Salmagundi, or, the Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq., and Others, a series of satirical essays and poems on New York society.
		Irving's contributions to this miscellany established his reputation as an essayist and wit, and this reputation was enhanced by his next work, A History of New York (1809), ostensibly written by Irving's famous comic creation, the Dutch-American scholar Diedrich Knickerbocker.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761554464 (855 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Washington Irving, by Charles Dudley Warner.
		Irving himself, shortly after this, enlisted in the war, and his letters thereafter [91]breathe patriotic indignation at the insulting proposals of the British and their rumored attack on New York, and all his similes, even those having love for their subject, are martial and bellicose.
		Irving intended to go to Washington and apply for a commission in the regular army, but he was detained at Philadelphia by the affairs of his magazine, until news came in February, 1815, of the close [93]of the war.
		During the holidays Irving paid another visit to the haunts of Isaac Walton, and his [112]description of the adventures and mishaps of a pleasure party on the banks of the Dove suggest that the incorrigible bachelor was still sensitive to the allurements of life, and liable to wander over the "dead-line" of matrimonial danger.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/5/9/8/15984/15984-h/15984-h.htm (16272 words)

	The Classical Library - Washington Irving (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Irving was born in New York City (near present-day Wall Street) at the end of the Revolutionary War on April 3, 1783.
		Irving studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1806, but his career soon gave way to his love of writing.
		Irving was engaged to be married to Matilda Hoffmanm who died at the age of seventeen, in 1809.
	www.classicallibrary.org /irving (555 words)

	The Washington Irving Trail Museum
		The Washington Irving Trail Museum was honored in the fall of 2002 by the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH).
		The Washington Irving Trail Museum is proud to be among those honored for outstanding achievement by the AASLH.
		Washington Irving, author of "Rip van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," was America's first internationally acclaimed writer.
	www.cowboy.net /non-profit/irving (1047 words)

	Washington Irving - Biography and Works
		Washington Irving was born in New York City on April 3, 1789 as the youngest of 11 children.
		During the war of 1812 Irving was a military aide to New York Governor Tompkins in the U.S. Army.
		In 1809 appeared Irving's comic history of the Dutch regime in New York, A History Of New York, by the imaginary 'Dietrich Knickerbocker', who was supposed to be an eccentric Dutch-American scholar.
	www.online-literature.com /irving (495 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline of American Literature: Democratic Origins and Revolutionary ...
		The youngest of 11 children born to a well-to-do New York merchant family, Washington Irving became a cultural and diplomatic ambassador to Europe, like Benjamin Franklin and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
		Irving gave America something it badly needed in the brash, materialistic early years: an imaginative way of relating to the new land.
		No writer was as successful as Irving at humanizing the land, endowing it with a name and a face and a set of legends.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/LIT/irving.htm (431 words)

	Washington Irving
		Washington was at that date twenty-one, a little below the average height, delicate, handsome of feature--Vanderlyn's somewhat too effeminate portrait of him gives doubtless a good notion of his appearance in that day.--full of all courtesies, too, and with a most winning manner.
		William Irving meantime had used influences at Washington, through which a secretaryship in the navy department, with $2,500 per annum, was offered to the author; but it was peremptorily declined.
		In the same year was founded a Washington Irving association at Tarrytown, which commemorated the hundredth anniversary of the author's birth by a public meeting and addresses, of which record was made in a memorial volume (New York, 1884).
	www.famousamericans.net /washingtonirving (3641 words)

	Chapter Washington Irving of Index by Simonds History of American Literature
		Washington Irving was born in the city of New York, April 3, 1783.
		Irving, "and the child shall be named after him." Some six years later, we are told, when the first president returned to New York, then the seat of government, a Scotch maid-servant of the family finding herself and the child by chance in the presence of Washington, presented the lad to him.
		The father, William Irving, a Scotchman, born in the Orkney Islands, and until his marriage an officer upon a vessel plying between Falmouth and New York, was now engaged in the hardware trade.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/270/1820/21941/1.html (718 words)

	Washington Irving - Books and Biography
		Washington Irving, (1783-1859) was born in New York City as the youngest of 11 children.
		Irving's success in social life and literature was shadowed by a personal tragedy.
		Irving invites the reader to ramble gently with him at the Hall, stating that "I am not writing a novel, and have nothing of intricate plot, or marvelous adventure, to promise the reader."
	www.readprint.com /author-50/Washington-Irving (1533 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Washington Irving
		Irving was one of the first Americans to be recognized abroad as a man of letters, and he was a literary idol at home.
		Irving became a diplomatic attaché at the American embassy in Madrid in 1826.
		Irving was master of a graceful and unobtrusively sophisticated prose style.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/WashingtonIrvingeBooks.htm (780 words)

	Washington Irving
		Washington Irving was born in New York City as the youngest of 11 children.
		During the war of 1812 Irving was a military aide to New York Governor Tompkins in the U.S. Army.
		In 1809 appeared Irving's comic history of the Dutch regime in New York, A HISTORY OF NEW YORK, by the imaginary 'Dietrich Knickerbocker', who was supposed to be an eccentric Dutch-American scholar.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /wirving.htm (1763 words)

	Washington Irving: A Who2 Profile
		Late in life Irving wrote a colossal five-volume biography of George Washington, and his biography of Christopher Columbus is still considered a classic.
		Irving is indirectly responsible for the name of the NBA's New York Knicks.
		Irving wrote A History of New York in 1809 under the pseudonym of Diedrich Knickerbocker; the term "Knickerbocker" came to mean anyone from New York.
	www.who2.com /washingtonirving.html (207 words)

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		Irving was born in New York on April 3, 1783.
		Irving studied law from around 1798 to 1802 (Reuben 5.) But only practiced for a short period.
		Washington Irving spent the rest of his life in Tarrytown.
	members.lycos.co.uk /america19thcentury/photoalbum.html (565 words)

	The Literary Gothic \| Washington Irving
		Like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Irving was acutely aware of America's cultural roots in Europe, and much of his work reflects both a nostalgia for and an updating of European life and folkways, as does the fact Irving spent a considerable portion of his adult life—over 20 years—living in Europe.
		Irving's "transitional" status is also evident in his powerful interest in American beginnings: a (largely comic) History of New York, a biography of Columbus (the literal "finder" of America, at least in popular myth), and a biography of George Washington (one of America's political "founders" and the man after whom Irving was named).
		Many of Irving's tales have a supernaturalist element, though Irving's gentle humor and rationalist skepticism often hedge that supernaturalism considerably, especially in the American tales.
	www.litgothic.com /Authors/irving.html (464 words)

	Washington Irving
		Washington Irving: Bibliography - Bibliography Irving's journals were edited by W. Trent and G. Hellman; The Western Journals...
		Washington Irving: Early Life and Work - Early Life and Work While he studied law, Irving amused himself by writing for periodicals such...
		Washington Irving: Later Life and Mature Work - Later Life and Mature Work Irving went to England in 1815 to run the Liverpool branch of the family...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0825529.html (241 words)

	Heath Anthology of American LiteratureWashington Irving - Author Page
		A merchant’s son, born and raised in New York City, Washington Irving was writing satirical pieces for a local newspaper before he was twenty.
		For years Irving halfheartedly pursued a career in law and business, while stealing as much time from work as possible for his writing.
		Irving had grown up in a transitional America, a nation culturally unsure of itself and deeply divided as to how democratic it should become.
	college.hmco.com /english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/early_nineteenth/irving_wa.html (836 words)

	Lesson 8: Washington Irving, American Romantic
		Second, both Irving and Cooper were more than inferior proteges; rather, they were as talented as many of the English masters and even earned the respect of English readers.
		This attention to the past, as Irving scholar William P. Kelly has noted, was one reason for Irving's success with his American audience.
		Irving is a major figure in the history of the short story in America.
	www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/markport/lit/amlit1/fall2002/08irving.htm (1568 words)

	Washington Irving
		The American writer Washington Irving (1783-1859) spent many years in Birmingham, first visiting at the end of the Napoleonic War, in 1815.
		Irving later stayed with the van Warts at their subsequent homes, at 13 Calthorpe Street, Edgbaston, and "The Shrubbery" on Hagley Road.
		The hall was then occupied by James Watt Junior, whom Irving visited, but was previously owned by members of the Holte Family (the last Holte to own, but not live at, Aston, Charles Holte, had only one child, Mary, who married Abraham Bracebridge, who in turn became Charles' tenant at Aston).
	www.birmingham.gov.uk /irving (514 words)

	Washington Irving's English Christmas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		When Washington Irving arrived in England in 1815 he was already an established writer in New York.
		Three years later, in 1818, the business was wound up and Irving was free at last to devote all his talents to writing.
		Irving wanted to describe all those ancient customs, many of which had survived both the centuries and the crossing to America.
	historynet.com /bh/blirvingsenglishchristmas (682 words)

	Washington Irving
		In spite of Irving's seventeen years in Europe, his search for native themes led him to contribute importantly to portraiture of the American Indian.
		In this essay, Irving praises the Indians for courage and magnanimity, and explains their deep resentment of white injuries; he calls it "the dark story of their wrongs and wretchedness." In the next sketch, "Philip of Pokanoket,,, he brings together materials for the many nineteenth century treatments of Philip (most notably, Cooper's and Stone's).
		Irving's recognition of the heroism of this "true-born prince" in trying to save his people is in sharp contrast to earlier views of Philip as devilish.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /railton/projects/rissetto/irving.html (1057 words)

	Washington Irving -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Washington Irving is shown in an oil painting of 1809 by J.W. Jarvis, which is in the Historic …
		Taking its name from Washington Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York (1809), the group, whose affiliation was more a regional than an aesthetic matter, sought to promote a genuinely American national culture and establish New York City as its literary centre.
		William Cullen Bryant was known as the American Wordsworth; Washington Irving's essays resemble those of Addison and Steele; James Fenimore...
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9275095 (748 words)

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