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Charles M. Skinner
Charles Montgomery Skinner (15 March 1852 – 1907) was an American writer. Newspaper career Skinner was born in Victor, New York. His career in literature and journalism included editorship of the ''Brooklyn Eagle''. His study of the paper’s famed Walt Whitman appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1903. Writings Skinner published collections of myths, legends and folklore found inside the United States and across the world. Skinner hoped that America’s progress would transform the nation’s few legends into few but great ones – “as time goes on the figures seen against the morning twilight of our history will rise to more commanding stature.” Charles M. Skinner, ''Myths and Legends of Our Own Land,'' preface (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6615, accessed 12/02/06) He hoped to combine folklore conventions with New England transcendentalism to keep alive traditions endangered by the industrial age. Skinner’s writings were wide-ranging. He was a playwrigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooklyn Eagle
:''This article covers both the historical newspaper (1841–1955, 1960–1963), as well as an unrelated new Brooklyn Daily Eagle starting 1996 published currently'' The ''Brooklyn Eagle'' (originally joint name ''The Brooklyn Eagle'' and ''Kings County Democrat'', later ''The Brooklyn Daily Eagle'' before shortening title further to ''Brooklyn Eagle'') was an afternoon daily newspaper published in the city and later borough of Brooklyn, in New York City, for 114 years from 1841 to 1955. At one point, it was the afternoon paper with the largest daily circulation in the United States. Walt Whitman, the 19th-century poet, was its editor for two years. Other notable editors of the ''Eagle'' included Democratic Party political figure Thomas Kinsella, seminal folklorist Charles Montgomery Skinner, St. Clair McKelway (editor-in-chief from 1894 to 1915 and a great-uncle of the ''New Yorker'' journalist), Arthur M. Howe (a prominent Canadian American who served as editor-in-chief from 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
