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Richard A. Davies. Inventing Sam Slick: A Biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada; 3/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Davies. Inventing Sam Slick: A Biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005...awaited biography of the Nova Scotia writer, Thomas Chandler Haliburton. In fact, Davies has devoted his scholarly...
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Inventing Sam Slick; a biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton.(AMERICAN LITERATURE)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2005; 503 words
; ...Inventing Sam Slick; a biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton. Davies, Richard A. U. of...c]2005 316 p. $60.00 Haliburton, who was a lawyer, judge...place in society. However, Haliburton could not resist the siren song...
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Longfellow's Evangeline and the Cult of Acadia.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 2/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...by marriage to the family of Thomas Chandler Haliburton, a Nova Scotian who was an...by Loyalists from New York. Haliburton's claim to fame as an author...tale is not found there, but Haliburton's research may have uncovered...
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Finding America's History
Magazine article from: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) contains references to such writers as Thomas Chandler Haliburton. If one has been exposed to Haliburton's creation, "Sam Slick," one might easily conclude that material that has largely...
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The national argument; Historians identify the birthplace of hockey--but not without controversy.
Magazine article from: The Report Newsmagazine; 7/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...based on an 1844 novel by Supreme Court Justice Thomas Chandler Haliburton. A passage in The Attache; or Sam Slick in England...goals." Paul Kitchen, SIHR chairman, says "Haliburton may have been writing about hurley, which is like...
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QUOTE UNQUOTE
Newspaper article from: The Press; 6/21/2003; 700+ words
; ...he always gets angry." -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian jurist and humourist...creature does not exist." -- Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian...anonymously and posthumously." -- Thomas Sowell. "If we value the pursuit...
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Vessels of light: a guide to special collections in the Killam Library Dalhousie University Libraries.
Magazine article from: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada; 9/22/1997; 700+ words
; ...collections that are described are those of Francis Bacon, Thomas Chandler Haliburton (placed in the author collections rather than in Canadiana), Oscar Wilde, Thomas H. Raddall, music materials, Australian literature...
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The Canadian Short Story: Interpretations.(Book review)
Magazine article from: American Review of Canadian Studies; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...short story at all prior to 1960. Consider, though: Canadian literature begins with Thomas McCulloch and the internationally celebrated Thomas Chandler Haliburton in the early nineteenth century, both of whom were short story writers; after poetry...
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Independence Day, 1835: the John A. Murrell conspiracy and the lynching of the Vicksburg gamblers in literature.
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 12/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...They have a regular built mob of citizens, and string up the drones like the Vixburg gamblers. (34) - Thomas Chandler Haliburton, 1836 1835 HAS LONG BEEN RENOWNED AS AN EXTRAORDINARY YEAR FOR THE Mississippi, not least because November...
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Today In History
News Wire article from: AP Online; 6/13/1999; ; 567 words
; ...Graf is 30. Thought for Today: ``When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.'' -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian jurist and humorist (1796-1865). The information contained in the AP News report may not be...
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Thomas Chandler Haliburton Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865) was a Canadian judge and author who is chiefly known for his humorous sketches and essays. He was also the first Canadian writer to achieve a significant international reputation...
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Haliburton, Thomas Chandler
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Haliburton, Thomas Chandler (1796–1865), born at Windsor, Nova Scotia. As a writer he became known for his The Clockmaker; or, The Sayings...
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Humor
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...big city as Seba Smith's Major Jack Downing and Thomas Chandler Haliburton's Sam Slick. By the Civil War , the character...Oral and published tall‐tales, such as Thomas Thorpe's The Big Bear of Arkansas (1841), celebrated...
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Oliver Goldsmith
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...is in fact not nearly as accurate in its account of conditions in early Nova Scotia as were the writings of Thomas Chandler Haliburton. As a poem, it follows The Deserted Village in meter and general structure but falls far short of its model...
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Sam Slick
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Sam Slick see Haliburton, Thomas Chandler .
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