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Washington Irving | Wrote "Rip Van Winkle"&"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
James Fenimore Cooper | Wrote "Deerslayer"&"Last of the Mohicans" |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | Wrote"The Scarlet Letter" |
Herman Melville | Wrote" Moby Dick" |
William Wells Brown | Wrote "Clotel" he was the first published black novelist |
Margaret Fuller | Wrote"Woman in 19th Century" It influenced the women's rights movement |
Catherine Sedgwick&Fanny Fern | Women writers who earned more money writing than prominent male writers |
John Greenleaf Whittier | Quaker poet who wrote about the evils of slavery |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Wrote "Paul Revere's Ride" |
Walt Whitman | Published only 1 book of poems,"Leaves of Grass" which he added to over the next 31 years |
Emily Dickinson | Wrote more than 1700 poems-- only 7 were published in her lifetime |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | American writer who probably had the greatest influence in mid 1800's |
Henry David Thoreau | fierce abolitionist and conductor of underground railroad. Wrote "Walden" |
Hudson River School | landscape painters of NY's Hudson River |
Thomas Cole&Asher Durand | Hudson River School artists |
George Catlin&Alfred Miller | artists which captured the culture of Native Americans |