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Repplier, Agnes, 1858-1950

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Agnes Repplier
(photograph courtesy of Univ. of Pennsylvania Library, used with permission)

Agnes Repplier (April 1, 1855–November 15, 1950) was an American essayist born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her essays are esteemed for their scholarship and wit.

Bibliography

Essay collections

Books and Men (1888)
Points of View (1891)
Essays in Miniature (1892)
Essays in Idleness (1893)
In the Dozy Hours (1894)
Varia (1897)
Philadelphia: The Place and the People (1898)
The Fireside Sphinx (1901)
Compromises (1904)
In Our Convent Days (1905)
A Happy Half Century (1908)
Americans and Others (1912)
The Cat (1912)
Counter Currents (1915)
Points of Friction (1920)
Under Dispute (1924)
To Think of Tea! (1931)
Times and Tendencies (1931)
In Pursuit of Laughter (1936)
Eight Decades (1937)

Biographical studies

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to:

Agnes Repplier

J. William White, M.D.; a Biography (1919)
Life of Pere Marquette (1929) (Jacques Marquette)
Mere Marie of the Ursulines (1931) (Marie de l'Incarnation)
Junipero Serra (1933)
Agnes Irwin (1934)

Misc.

In Pursuit of Laughter (1936), a historical study of types of humor.

External links

Works by Agnes Repplier at Project Gutenberg
- Americans and Others, available at Project Gutenberg.
Essays by Agnes Repplier at Quotidiana.org
Repplier Biography at the University of Pennsylvania
Agnes Repplier at Find-A-Grave

This biographical information was gathered from the Agnes_Repplier page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project.

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