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"What I lacked and what I needed," confessed Samuel Clemens in 1908, "was grandchildren." Near the end of his life, Clemens became the doting friend and correspondent of twelve schoolgirls ranging in age from ten to sixteen. For Clemens, "collecting" these surrogate granddaughters was a way of overcoming his loneliness, a respite from the pessimism, illness, and depression that dominated his later years. In Mark Twain's Aquarium, John Cooley brings together virtually every known communication exchanged between the writer and the girls he called his "angelfish." Cooley also includes a number of Clemens's notebook entries, autobiographical dictations, short manuscripts, and other relevant materials that further illuminate this fascinating story. Clemens relished the attention of these girls, orchestrating chaperoned visits to his homes and creating an elaborate set of rules and emblems for the Aquarium Club. He hung their portraits in his billiard room and inv
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Samuel Clemens (Author)
SAMUEL CLEMENS (1835–1910) remains one of America's most influential, prolific, and most widely read authors.
John Cooley (Editor)
JOHN COOLEY is a professor emeritus of English and environmental studies at Western Michigan University. His publications include How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls and Daring Young Women and Earthly Words: Essays on Contemporary American Nature and Environmental Writers.
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SAMUEL CLEMENS (1835–1910) remains one of America's most influential, prolific, and most widely read authors.
John Cooley (Editor)
JOHN COOLEY is a professor emeritus of English and environmental studies at Western Michigan University. His publications include How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls and Daring Young Women and Earthly Words: Essays on Contemporary American Nature and Environmental Writers.
An important addition to recent biographical studies that deal with Clemens turbulent last decade. . . . Cooley's edition should prove to be a fundamental source for the study of Clemens's final years as well as for the examination of larger questions involving Victorian attitudes toward innocence and sexuality.
(J. Kent Calder Documentary Editing)Filled with humor and pathos, and it ultimately presents a fascinating psychological glimpse of Mark Twain.
(Jackie Jones San Francisco Chronicle)The wealth of letters collected here are dotted with charm and wit and represent a genuine contribution to Twain scholarship.
(Charles C. Nash Library Journal)Cooley's careful editing with appropriate introductions places the letters into a larger context of Twain's last five years and will help scholars see Twain's problematic relationship to the young women more clearly.
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- PublisherUniversity of Georgia Press
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 082031238X
- ISBN 13 9780820312385
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
- EditorJohn Cooley
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