Washington Writers Fall Into Line: Burnett to Bancroft
Special correspondence from Washington details local literary centers. Frances Hodgson Burnett, Emma Southworth, Joaquin Miller, and Mrs. Dahlgren are profiled, with notes on their homes, writing spaces, and habits. Librarian Spofford and historian Bancroft are described as prolific, disciplined figures shaping American letters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Hodgson Barnett
Emma Southworth
Admiral Dahlgren
Joaquin Miller
Librarian Spofford
Washington
United States
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Mark Twain
Constance Fennimore Woolson
New York Avenue
Capital
Anne
Harpers
Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass
Mary Halleck Foote
Hawley
Frances Hodgson Burnett
I Street
Gen. Garfield
Congress
Emma D. E. N. Southworth
Robert Bonner
The
Ledger
Bonner
Georgetown Heights
Potomac
Arlington
Virginia Hills
Charles Reade
Bob Schenck
England
Senator Conger
Michigan
South Mountain
Dahlgren
Ohio
Mr. Miller
Miller
Joaquin
Oregon
Overland Monthly
Ainsworth Spofford
Librarian of Congress
Congressional Library
Mr. Spofford
Massachusetts Avenue
Canadians in Ottawa House of Commons and key figures
The writer profiles Canada’s parliament in Ottawa noting the House of Commons as the active governing body with ministers and opposition in clear benches across from each other. It highlights the Senate as largely fossilized, Governor General Lansdowne at Rideau Hall, Sir John A. Macdonald as premier, and ministers like Mr. Mackenzie Bowell and Mr. Chapleau. It details Dommion appraiser William Frazer, the Canada First reformers, and the emergence of the national policy with tariffs boosting industry and colonizing a shift from free trade to protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marquis OF Lansdowne
House of Commons
Government Party
John A. MacDonald
Canada
Senate
England
Ottawa
Rideau Hall
Sir John A. Macdonald
Lord Beaconsfield
Sir John
Scotland
Mackenzie Bowell
Bowell
Sir Hector Langevin
Mr. Chapleau
Minis
Edward Blake
Toronto
Blake
Mr. Blake
William H. Frazer
Dominion
Frazer
United States
Isaac Buchanan
John McLean
W. H. Frazer
W. H. Howland
Canada First
A. W. Wright
Paul Wilcox
Corsets for Men and The Style Debate of Supportahs
A narrator recounts a chat about men wearing corsets or supportahs and observes fashionable men with a dime drop mishap. The piece savages the notion with humor, predicts absurd future padding, and argues that masculine fashion would mirror women’s forms.
The English Welcome and Court Etiquette Described
Gen Adam Badeau notes that English visitors are not greeted with ceremony, as hosts entertain constantly. Guests often travel by carriage or horse, may hire mounts, and arrive in the afternoon. Postsil- lions, the gates, and lodge courtesy punctuate the approach to a country house and its heraldic surroundings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adam Badeau
Gen
Grant
Windsor
England
Also Mentioned on This Page
H Street
Corcoran
Joaquin Miller's
St. Nicholas
Lord Fauntleroy
Prospect Cottage
Mrs. Southworth
Capitol
MR. Spofford’s
Bancroft
France
Frank George Carpenter
Minister of Customs
Dominion Railways
Hector Langevin
Chapleau
Leonard Tilly
New Brunswick
William Frazer
IR Hector Langevin
Sir Leonard Tilly
Portland and
Loniville Comey
Plaster OF Paris
RED Cross Paints
Marshall & Welch
Mansfield’s
Omaha
Chicago
Milwaukee
St Paul
Omaha Rock Island Freeport
Rockford
Elgin
Madison
Janesville
Beloit
Winona
LaCrosse
R. Miller
A. V. H. Carpenter
J .F. Tucker
Geo. H. Herfford
J.T. Clark
Cinches
SPURS
Main Street
Greeley, Colorado
Hart
Dr. Clark
U. S
Leo
M. A. McLauchlin & CO
Skinner Block
Denver