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“I could never forget those bitter experiences, which I trust made me somewhat tender of the feelings of literary aspirants, when in later years it came my turn to exercise a little brief authority in an editorial chair.”

Early rebuffs remembered as a check on later editorial power · Memoir, My Own Story

John Townsend Trowbridge

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John Townsend Trowbridge

18 September 1827–12 February 1916

In the pantheon of nineteenth-century American letters, John Townsend Trowbridge occupies a curious position—neither forgotten nor fully remembered, a writer whose prolific output and genuine popularity during his lifetime have faded into the scholarly margins, yet whose contribution to American literature…

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