Francis Bret Harte

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Francis Bret Harte

• By DJ Creech,
• Sarah Iqbal, Megan Knapp.

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Literary Period

• Realism (1455-1900)
• Popular styles- Novels, Short stories
• Effects Social realism and Aesthetic realism

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Famous First

• Harte became the first editor of the Overland
  Monthly
• became the highest paid writers in America in the
  1870s
• Harte was the first American writer to seize upon
  the picturesque features of California

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Significant Quotations

• Man has the possibility of existence after
  death. But possibility is one thing and the
  realization of the possibility is quite a
  different thing.
• The only sure thing about luck is that it will
  change.
• We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the
  end is linked to the beginning
• Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be
  kissed into smiles again.

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Characters

• Ruffian- helps a tiny child
• Gun wielding preacher
• In plain language from truthful James he
  created a witty china man who outsmarts his white
  gambling partners
• Oximoronical characters
• Miners and other western people

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Famous works

• The mission bells of Monterey
• The outcasts of poker flat
• outcropping
• Plain language from truthful James
• Gold Rush
• The lost Galleon

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Dates of life

• Born- Aug 25, 1839 in Albany, NY
• Dies in Camberely, England On May 6, 1902 from
  throat cancer.

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Literary Terms

• Local color Captures physical environments, as
  well as mood of a time and place.
• Oxymoron names of characters (how he described
  them)

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Family Facts

• Graduated college- didnt receive diploma since
  he owed 90 graduation fee
• Mother Elizabeth Rebecca Ustrander Hart
• Father Henry Hart
• Had 4 kids Griswold, Francis, jess amy, Ethel
• Lived in 10 different places (CA, NY, Germany,
  Illinois, Scotland, England)

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Famous Peers

• Mark Twain (author of Huck Finn)
• Henry Longfellow
• Oliver Holmes (poet and author of old Ironsides
• James Lowell (poet, critic, editor Fireside
  Travels)

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Influenced By

• Brothers letters from Mexican war and war in CA
• Sister ( Margaret) and he traveled to CA by
  Steamship. Faced many hardships storms at sea,
  revolutions, and ship wrecks.
• Charles Dickens

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More Facts

• Readers began to call him the young dickens
• Didnt approve of whites taking advantage of
  minorities. Publishing works about his feelings
  helped him make popular

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Fun Facts

• Once worked as a shotgun rider on a stage coach.
• There is an elementary, middle, and high school
  named after him
• Acclaimed American author Bret Harte worked at
  the San Francisco Department of treasury in the
  1800s.
• Highest paid American authors in the 1870s!!

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Influenced on

• Mark Twain ( met Harte in 1864 and claimed that
  Harte taught him how to write)