George Cary Eggleston (26 November 1839 – 14 April 1911) American author and brother of fellow author

Edward Eggleston Edward Eggleston (December 10, 1837 – September 3, 1902) was an American historian and novelist. Biography Eggleston was born in Vevay, Indiana, to Joseph Cary Eggleston and Mary Jane Craig. The author George Cary Eggleston was his brother. A ...

(1837–1902). Sons of Joseph Cary Eggleston and Mary Jane Craig. After the

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he published a serialized account of his time as a Confederate soldier in ''

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''. These serialized articles were later collected and expanded upon and published under the title "A Rebel's Recollections." He coined the term

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in his 1906 book 'Blind Alleys' in which a character distinguishes the 'beer socialist' who "wants everybody to come down to his low standards of living" and the 'champagne socialist' who "wants everybody to be equal on the higher plane that suits him, utterly ignoring the fact that there is not enough champagne, green turtle and truffles to go round". He also served as an editor of ''

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'' magazine in the early 1870s.Eggleston, George Cary
Recollections of a Varied Life
pp. 131-33 (1910) His boyhood home at

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, known as the Edward and George Cary Eggleston House, was listed on the

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in 1973.

Principal Works

Novels * ''A Man of Honor'' (1873, first serialized in ''

'') * ''The Wreck of the Red Bird'' (1882) * ''Juggernaut'' (1891, with Dolores Bacon) * ''Camp Venture, a story of the Virginia mountains'' (1901) * ''A Carolina Cavalier, a Romance of the American Revolution'' (1902) * ''Dorothy South'' (1902) * ''The Master of Warlock; a Virginia War Story'' (1903) * ''Evelyn Byrd'' (1904) * '' Love is the Sum of It All'' (1907) * ''Blind Alleys'' (1906) * ''Irene of the Mountains; a Romance of Old Virginia'' (1909) *''Westover of Wanalah'' (1910) Juvenile Publications * ''Big Brother Series'' (1875–1882) * ''Strange Stories from History'' (1886) Miscellaneous * ''How to Educate Yourself: With or Without Masters'' (1872) * ''A Rebel's Recollections'' (1874) * ''How to Make a Living: Suggestions Upon the Art of Making, Saving, and Using Money'' (1875) * ''Red Eagle and the Wars with the Creek Indians of Alabama'' (1878) * ''The First of the Hoosiers: Reminiscences of Edward Eggleston'' (1903) * ''Recollections of a Varied Life'' (1910) * ''The History of the Confederate War'' (1910)

References

* "Eggleston, George Cary" ''American Authors 1600-1900'' The H. W. Wilson Company, New York, 1938

External links

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A Rebel's Recollections.
New York: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge (Mass.): The Riverside Press, 1875, c1874.
George Cary Eggleston - The Authors - The Atlantic
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