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John Dunton John Dunton
Dunton, John (1659–1733),English bookseller, came to Boston (March 1686) to collect a debt. He remained two or three months, making excursions into neighboring towns to sell books, which, he said, “were most of them practical, and well suited to the genius of New England.” His... Read more
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Lafcadio Hearn , 1850-1904, American-Japanese author, b. Lefkás, Ionian Islands, of Irish-Greek parentage. He was educated in Ireland, England, and France before immigrating to the United States in 1869. Handicapped by partial blindness, Hearn was a colorful, imaginative, but morbidly... Read more
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