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Whipple, Edwin Percy, 1819-1886

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Edwin Percy Whipple (1819 - 1886), essayist and critic, born in Gloucester, Mass, was a brilliant and discriminating critic. His first book was Essays and Reviews (two volumes, 1849), which was followed by:

Character and Characteristic Men (1866)
Literature of the Age of Elizabeth (1876)
Recollections of Eminent Men (1887)
American Literature and Other Papers (1887)
Outlooks on Society (1888)
Success and its Conditions
Literature and Politics

An edition of his Charles Dickens (two volumes, Boston), with an introduction by Arlo Bates, appeared in 1912.

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This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.
This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.

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