HARTE, BRET

(Francis Brett Harte) (härt), 1836–1902, American writer of short stories and humorous verse, b. Albany, N.Y. At 19 he went to California, where he tried his hand at teaching, clerking, and mining. In 1868 he helped establish the Overland Monthly, where his short stories and verse first appeared. He gained enormous success with the publication of "The Luck of Roaring Camp," the first of his picturesque stories of Western local color, and with such later stories as "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" and "Brown of Calaveras." Although Harte did not develop character and motivation, he had an observant eye and a brisk reportorial style. He was U.S. consul in Germany and Scotland from 1878 to 1885. The remainder of his life was spent near London.

See his letters, ed. by G. B. Harte (1926); biographies by R. O'Connor (1966) and A. Nissen (2000); M. Duckett, Mark Twain and Bret Harte (1964).

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Trent's Trust: And Other Tales
Book by Bret Harte; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1903
Subjects: Fiction, Harte, Bret--1836-1902--Dictionaries, Harte, Bret--1836-1902--Indexes
...ARGONAUT EDITION" OF THE WORKS OF BRET HARTE TRENTS TRUST THE CRUSADE OF THE EXCELSIOR BY BRET HARTE ILLUSTRATED P. F. COLLIER...COPYRIGHT 1886 AND 1887 BY BRET HARTE COPYRIGHT 1903 BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN...
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Mrs. Skagg's Husbands
Book by Bret Harte; P.F. Collier, 1900
Subjects: Fiction
BRET HARTE --From a Portrait taken in 1872 "ARGONAUT EDITION" OF THE WORKS OF BRET HARTE MRS. SKAGGSS HUSBANDS BY BRET HARTE ILLUSTRATED P. F. COLLIER SON NEW YORK Published...
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Condensed Novels: New Burlesques
Book by Bret Harte; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1902
Subjects: Fiction
BRET HARTE --From the Original Painting by John...A. "ARGONAUT EDITION" OF THE WORKS OF BRET HARTE CONDENSED NOVELS NEW BURLESQUES BY BRET HARTE ILLUSTRATED P. F. COLLIER SON NEW...
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Thankful Blossom: A Romance of the Jerseys, 1779
Book by Bret Harte; James R. Osgood, 1877
...CO., Publishers, Boston SHE RAISED HER RIDING-WHIP. THANKFUL BLOSSOM A ROMANCE OF THE JERSEYS 1779 BY BRET HARTE Illustrated BOSTON JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY Late Ticknor Fields, and Fields, Osgood, Co. 1877 COPYRIGHT...
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The Letters of Quintus Curtius Snodgrass
Book by Bret Harte, Mark Twain; Southern Methodist University, 1946
Subjects: Fiction
...Sketches of the Sixties by BRET HARTE and MARK TWAIN Being forgotten...COUNTRIES Dedicated TO ALL LOVERS OF BRET HARTE AND MARK TWAIN Table of Contents UNCOLLECTED BRET HARTE MATERIAL CALIFORNIA...
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The Feminization of Roaring Camp: Bret Harte and the American Woman's Home
Journal article by Axel Nissen; Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 34, 1997
Subjects: American literature--Analysis, Beecher, Catharine E.--Criticism, interpretation, etc., California--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Family in literature--Analysis, Harte, Bret--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sex role in literature--Analysis, The American Woman's Home (Essay)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Luck of Roaring Camp (Short story)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
The Feminization of Roaring Camp: Bret Harte and The American Womans Home...1 More than any other author, Bret Harte was responsible for literary representation...between piquancy and propriety, than Bret Harte. As it turned out, the time was ripe...
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American Literature, Silent Film, and the Story within a Story
Journal article by Kevin J. Hayes; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 27, 1999
Subjects: Ford, John, Harte, Bret, Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-64), Literature, Motion picture criticism, Vernot, Henry
...film read: "Cleverly Constructed Photoplay Showing How a Bret Harte Story Was Used in Solving a Similar Problem of Today...them from assuming the film too closely paralleled the Bret Harte story and, therefore, from being disappointed. Sometimes...
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Calculating Loss in Tennyson's in Memoriam
Journal article by Irene Hsiao; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 47, 2009
Subjects: Freud, Sigmund--Influence, Freud, Sigmund--Works, In Memoriam (Harte, Bret) (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works, Psychoanalysts--Influence, Psychoanalysts--Works, Tennyson, Alfred, Lord--Criticism and interpretation, Tennyson, Alfred, Lord--Works
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The Nineteenth (1992) Supplement to a Cross-Referenced Index of Short Fiction Anthologies and Author-Title Listings
Journal article by Landon C. Burns, Elizabeth Buckmaster, Jane E. Cooper; Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 30, 1993
Subjects: Anthologies--Bibliography, English literature--Collections and collecting, Short stories--Bibliography
...Harte, Bret...Harte, Bret...Top Floor Back" Harte, Bret...
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Capitalism, Nationalism, and the American Short Story
Journal article by Joseph Urgo; Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 35, 1998
Subjects: American literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Authors, American--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Capitalism--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Nationalism--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Short stories--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...literary entrepreneurs, including Bret Harte, founded the Overland Monthly in...Times as easily as a short story by Bret Harte. And carrying a book around until...expanse of their own nation state. Bret Harte suggested in 1899 "that the secret...
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Mark Twain's Reconstruction - "A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage" and Its Moment in History
Magazine article by Roy Blount Jr.; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 288, July 2001
Subjects: A Murder, a Mystery, and a Marriage (Short fiction)--Authorship, Humorists--Authorship, Twain, Mark--Authorship
...him "lift up my voice and swear." Bret Harte, who had been his houseguest off...anything. And when Twain heard that Harte, whom he had come to despise, was...higher-minded than resentment of Bret Harte but less quixotic than demanding...
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Mark Twain's Reconstruction: "A Murder, a Mystery and a Marriage" and Its Moment in History
Magazine article by Jr. Roy Blount; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 288, July 2001
Subjects: American literature, American writers, Twain, Mark, United States history
...him "lift up my voice and swear." Bret Harte, who had been his houseguest off...anything. And when Twain heard that Harte, whom he had come to despise, was...higher-minded than resentment of Bret Harte but less quixotic than demanding...
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Ice Sizzle & Totem Poles
Magazine article by Priscilla L. Buckley; National Review, Vol. 41, January 27, 1989
Subjects: Alaska--Description and travel, Cruise ships--Personal narratives
...the steep staircases leading from one street level to the next, the towering, encompassing mountains, make the world of Bret Harte and Jack London all the more believable. At Prince Rupert, north of Victoria, we board the Exploration Starship, a...
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Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company
Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 277, March 1996
Subjects: Ambrose Bierce, American writers--Biography
...critic, he used an elephant gun indiscriminately on mice and dinosaurs. As a fiction writer, he began in the wake of Bret Harte and was later swamped by Mark Twain, but the best of his macabre tales, whether coldly ironic or comically bloody, retain...
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Losing Faith in Self-Esteem
Magazine article by Richard Colvin; School Administrator, Vol. 57, February 2000
Subjects: Academic achievement--Planning, Personality and academic achievement--Analysis, School management and organization--Social policy, Self-esteem--Research
...out. Catherine Sumpter, principal of 1,400-student Bret Harte Middle School in Los Angeles, is stressing the importance...students read every day. At the same time, however, Bret Harte is working on students self-esteem. The school holds...
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When Writers Get Petty
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 29, 2002
Subjects: Capote, Truman, Harte, Bret, Hellman, Lillian, McCarthy, Mary, Nabokov, Vladimir, Snow, C. P., Twain, Mark, Updike, John, Wilson, Edmund, Wolfe, Tom
...into the lives of Mark Twain and Bret Harte, Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein...all know Mark Twain, but mention Bret Hartes name and some rather sophisticated...he was in a different league than Harte. That Harte was a drunk - how many artists dont...
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Lump of Coal at 'Christmas'; Five Miners and a Baby Give Meaning to Family
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 12, 2006
Subjects: Coal industry, Coal mining
...and you have "The Christmas Foundling," local playwright Norman Allens dead-earnest tale, inspired by the stories of Bret Harte, about what constitutes a family. In this case, its a group of crusty coal miners living in the Sierra foothills of California...
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Old John Burns of Gettysburg
Newspaper article by Peter Cliffe; The Washington Times, January 20, 2001
...Harte (1839-1902), born in Albany, N.Y., who wrote as Bret Harte, saluted the grand old veteran in "John Burns of Gettysburg," a long poem with stanzas of unequal length. While Harte undoubtedly gave full rein to his imagination, he did...
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Writers' Military Experience Colors Later Work; Numbers Few, but Influence Is Strong
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 16, 2002
Subjects: Twain, Mark
...Herman Melville, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Bret Harte all were alive during the conflict, many of them too old to soldier actively, and all wrote memorable literature related...
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Civil War Poetry, and an American Modernist
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 8, 2005
Subjects: Roethke, Theodore
...poems. Some of the poets will be unfamiliar to all but students of American poetry. Others, including Herman Melville, Bret Harte, and Ambrose Bierce, are known for their fiction, even though each knew his way about a poem. There is a group of poets...
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Harte, Bret
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HARTE, BRET (Francis Brett Harte)hart, 1836 1902, American writer of short stories...biographies by R. OConnor (1966) and A. Nissen (2000); M. Duckett, Mark Twain and Bret Harte (1964). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press...
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Bok, Edward William
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...articles and crusades to a medium previously restricted to light entertainment. Bok published fiction by Howells, Twain, Bret Harte, and Kipling and articles by several American Presidents. Of the books he wrote, his autobiographical Americanization...
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Weinberger, Jaromir
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Spreading Chestnut Tree (1939). Other works are the operas Outcasts of Poker Flat (1932; based on the story by Bret Harte) and Wallenstein (1937), and the ballet Saratoga (1941). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...
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Mother Lode
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The discovery of alluvial gold on the South Fork of the American River led to the 1848 gold rush. Mark Twain and Bret Harte helped make the Mother Lode famous. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the...
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Morristown
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Revolution); and the courthouse (1826). Other notable residents of Morristown were the cartoonist Thomas Nast , the writer Bret Harte , and the humorist Frank R. Stockton . Morristown National Historical Park (see National Parks and Monuments...
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