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Balestier, Charles (Wolcott)
Balestier, Charles (Wolcott) (1861–91), American author and publisher, who visited England in 1888 to secure English manuscripts for Lovell, the publishing company which had issued his novel A Fair Device (1886). He became a director of Heinemann and Balestier, a firm which published English and American books on the Continent. He is remembered for his collaboration with Kipling (who married his sister in 1892): he wrote the American chapters for The Naulahka (1892) and Kipling dedicated his Barrack-Room Ballads to him in the same year.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Balestier, Charles (Wolcott)." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Balestier, Charles (Wolcott)." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-BalestierCharlesWolcott.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Balestier, Charles (Wolcott)." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-BalestierCharlesWolcott.html |
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Balestier, (Charles) Wolcott
Balestier, [Charles] Wolcott (1861–91), author of several novels and short stories, is best known for his collaboration with his brother‐in‐law Kipling on The Naulahka (1892), a novel about a California speculator in India, to which Balestier contributed the American chapters. A brief residence in Colorado (1885) led to his writing Benefits Forgot (1892), a novel of the Rocky Mountain mining camps.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Balestier, (Charles) Wolcott." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Balestier, (Charles) Wolcott." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-BalestierCharlesWolcott.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Balestier, (Charles) Wolcott." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-BalestierCharlesWolcott.html |
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