Nathan Haskell Dole (August 31, 1852 – May 9, 1935) was an American editor,

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, and author. A writer and journalist in

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, and

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, he translated many of the works of

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and books of other Russians; novels of the Spaniard

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(1886–90); a variety of works from the French and

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Biography

Nathan Haskell Dole was born August 31, 1852, in

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. He was the second son of the Reverend Nathan Dole (1811–1855) and mother Caroline (Fletcher) Dole, his older brother being Charles Fletcher Dole (1845–1927). After their father died of

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, their mother moved with the two boys to live with their grandmother in the Fletcher homestead, a strict

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home, in

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, where Dole grew up. Sophie May wrote her Prudy Books in Norridgewock, and they may be an indication of the sort of life Nathan Dole and his brother lived there. A newspaper article about Nathan in the ''Boston Evening Transcript'', February 8, 1929, suggested that Nathan, lively from the start, may have offered good material for the mischievous boys who acted as foil for the goody-good ones in the Prudy Books. The same ''Boston Evening Transcript'' article said that Nathan was an omnivorous reader, who soon taught himself to read in French, German, Greek and Latin. He studied at the Eaton School in Norridgewock, and then under private tutors. Later he went to the

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and

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, graduating in 1870, and then to

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, from which he graduated in 1874. Years later he received an L.H. Doctorate and from Oglethorp University in

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, which made him an Honorary Alumnus. After Harvard, Dole taught at De Veaux College from 1874 to 1875, and at Worcester High School from 1875 to 1876. From 1876 to 1878, he was preceptor at Derby Academy, in

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. In 1881, he left his teaching career to work for the ''Philadelphia Press'', where he was musical art and literary editor. (For a time his work appeared in both the morning and evening edition of the ''Press'', affording him the opportunity of contradicting in the evening paper what he had said in the morning edition, and vice versa. From 1887 to 1901 he was literary advisor to T. Y. Crowell Publishing Company. He was also Secretary of the department of publicity at D. Appleton and Co. for five months in 1901. On June 28, 1882, in

, Dole married Helen James Bennett, a daughter of Frances and William M. Bennett, of Boston. They were married by his brother Charles F. Dole, and Dole stated his occupation as Editor. He was aged 29 and his wife 25.Nathan H Dole
in the ''Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988'', ancestry.com, accessed 11 November 2021 They settled in Boston, where he concentrated on writing, translating, editing, and lecturing. Dole and his family lived in

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for many years, spending their summers in

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. They were popular members of the Boston social and literary set. Their home was full of both music and literature, and was well known for good conversation at the four o'clock teas every afternoon. In 1928, when he was seventy-six, Dole and his wife moved to New York City to be near their daughter and grandchildren and lived in Riverdale-on-Hudson. Dole knew the literary giants

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(who was his father's instructor in Bowdoin College),

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and many others. Dole died May 9, 1935, at St. John's Hospital in

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of a heart attack.

Works

Among his original writings are: * ''A Score of Famous Composers'' (1891-1902-1924) (Enlarged and revised as in 1927.) * ''The Hawthorn Tree and other Poems'' (1895)
''Joseph Jefferson at Home''
(1898); see

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. * ''Life of Count Tolstoi'' (1911)
''The Spell of Switzerland''
(1913) * ''Young Folks History of Russia'', 1881. * ''Not Angela Quite'' (fiction) 1893. * ''On the Point'' (fiction) 1893 Famous Composers;, * ''The Hawthorn Tree and Other Poems'', 1896. * ''Poem for the Educational Music Courses'', 1896. * ''Joseph Jefferson At Home'', 1896. * ''Life of Francis William Bird'', 1897. * '' Omar the Tentmaker, A Romance of Old Persia'', 1898, in 1921 and 1928. * ''Peace and Progress'', 1904. * ''Six Italian Essays'', 1907. * ''The Pilgrims and other Poems'', 1907. * ''Rote Songs for Boston Public Schools'', 1915-1916. * ''America in Spitsbergen'' (two volumes), 1922.
''The Mistakes We Make''
1898. * ''The Latin Poets'', 1905. * ''The Breviary Treasures'' (10 Vols.) 1905-1906. * ''The Greek Poets'', 1907. He contributed to: * ''Boston Evening Transcript'' * ''The Portland News'' * ''The Independent'' * ''The New York Times Literary Supplement'' * Many other magazines. Dole was Associate Editor of: * ''The Internal Library of Famous Literature'', 1890 * ''Flowers from Persia Poets'', 1901 * ''The Young Folks Library'', 1902 * ''The Encyclopedia Americana'', 1905 * ''Vocations'', 1909-1910. (10 vols., in collaboration with Pres. Hyde and Caroline Ticknor.) * The 10th Edition of ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotation'', with additions. Poems of Dr. Samuel S. Curry, with Biography, 1923. His editorial works include: * ''

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'' (1896) * Tolstoi's ''Collected Works'' (20 volumes, 1899) * ''Poetical Works of

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and Shelley'' (1905) His translations include: * Paolo Ettore Santangelo, ''Attila, A Romance of Old Aquileia'' (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1929)

References

External links

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Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia entry
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