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Browne, Charles Farrar

The Oxford Companion to American Literature | 1995 | | Copyright

Browne, Charles Farrar (1834–67), humorist born in Maine, is better known under his pseudonym Artemus Ward. In 1857 he began to contribute to the Cleveland Plain Dealer the series of Artemus Ward's Sayings, a record of the imaginary adventures of an itinerant showman. He capitalized on the traits of backwoods and Down East characters, and attracted attention with comic misspellings. He often wrote on current events and jibed at insincerities and sentimentality. For a short time he was editor of Vanity Fair. He was at the height of his fame as a London lecturer and contributor to Punch when he died of tuberculosis. A selection from his books was made by A.J. Nock (1924).

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Browne, Charles Farrar

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Copyright

Browne, Charles Farrar (1834–67), American humorous moralist, wrote under pseudonym ‘Artemus Ward’. He purported to describe the experiences of a travelling showman, using, like ‘Josh Billings’ ( H. W. Shaw), his own comic phonetic spelling. He became a contributor to Punch and died in England.

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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Browne, Charles Farrar." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 8 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Browne, Charles Farrar." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (February 8, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-BrowneCharlesFarrar.html

MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Browne, Charles Farrar." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved February 08, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-BrowneCharlesFarrar.html

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