J.W. De Forest novels, 1872-1876.

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J.W. De Forest novels, 1872-1876.

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The collection contains a photostat of De Forest's novel of political corruption in the Gilded Age, Playing the mischief (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1876) with hand corrected changes for a 1904 edition; positive and negative photostats of each of the first pages of the serialized, illustrated novel published in Frank Leslie's Chimney corner (24 and 28 November, and 5 December 1874); and an unbound 1875 edition with pencilled corrections and notes in red pencil to the typesetter. Also, contains galley proofs (incomplete; 26 sheets, to chapter 9) for his novel set in the antebellum South, Kate Beaumont, with corrections in red and blue; and a photostat of a corrected copy, both typeset and manuscript (incomplete; pages 1-164, to chapter 39).

.91 cubic ft.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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De Forest, John William, 1826-1906

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American author. From the description of Papers of John William DeForest [manuscript], 1855-1887. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806466 John William De Forest's novels and nonfiction works contain a realism absent in the work of many of his Victorian Era contemporaries. Instead of depicting the romance and sentimentality fashionable in literature of that time, De Forest depicts a very different view of the world. This view includes poverty, human failings, ...