Henry Harland

Henry Harland (1861 - 1905), novelist, born of American parentage at St.

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1861 - 1905

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Petersburg, and educated at Rome. Thereafter he went to Paris, and thence to

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America, where he graduated at Harvard, and settled in New York. His

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literary career falls into two distinctly marked sections, very diverse

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in character. During the first of these he produced, under the pseudonym

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of "Sidney Luska," a series of highly sensational novels, thrown off with

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little regard to literary quality, and which it was his wish should be

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forgotten; but about 1890 his aspirations underwent a complete change,

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and he became an enthusiast in regard to style and the mot propre. The

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first novels of this new era, Mademoiselle Miss (1893), Grey Roses

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Mademoiselle Miss - Grey Roses

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(1895), and Comedies and Errors (1898), though obtaining the approval

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of the literary elect, had little general popularity; but the tide turned

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with the appearance of The Cardinal's Snuff-box (1900), which was

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widely admired. It was followed by The Lady Paramount (1901), and My Friend Prospero (1903). H. died at San Remo after a prolonged illness.

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The Lady Paramount - My Friend Prospero

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