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Bret Harte (/ h ɑːr t / HART, born Francis Brett Hart, August 25, 1836 – May 5, 1902) was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush.
"The Outcasts of Poker Flat" (1869) is a short story written by author of the American West Bret Harte. [1] An example of naturalism and local color of California during the first half of the nineteenth century, the story was first published in January 1869 in the magazine Overland Monthly. It was one of two short stories which brought the ...
Bret Harte (1836–1902), American author and poet; Emma Harte, a character in novels by Barabara Taylor Bradford; Jack Harte (Irish writer), Irish short story writer and novelist; Walter Harte (1709–1774), British poet and historian, friend of Alexander Pope
"The Luck of Roaring Camp" is a short story by American author Bret Harte. It was first published in the August 1868 issue of the Overland Monthly and helped push Harte to international prominence. [1] The story is about the birth of a baby boy in a 19th-century gold prospecting camp. The boy's mother, Cherokee Sal, dies in childbirth, so the ...
Harte was born on 1 September 1944 in Killeenduff, near Easkey in County Sligo. At an early age, his family moved to Lanesboro, County Longford, where his blacksmith father found work with Bord na Mona. Harte draws on the experience of this uprooting in his novel In the Wake of the Bagger. Later he moved to Dublin where he worked at many jobs ...
An acrostic is a type of word puzzle, related somewhat to crossword puzzles, that uses an acrostic form. It typically consists of two parts. The first part is a set of lettered clues, each of which has numbered blanks representing the letters of the answer.
Glynn Boyd Harte (28 April 1948 – 16 December 2003) was a British artist, illustrator and author. Early life and career. Harte was born in Rochdale, ...
Harte nevertheless attended the play's opening at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C., on May 7, 1877. [10] Near the end of his life, Harte used the characters of both Truthful James and Ah Sin in his poem "Free Silver at Angel's", a satirical response to the silver plank in the 1896 Democratic National Convention platform. [11]