Backlog refers to the large piece of wood that supports the fire in a large fire place (and therefore lasts longest). In the beginning of the book, Warner expresses his fear that fireplaces are going out of style with the introduction of new technologies for heating homes and that the important things that happen around fireplaces are also destined to disappear, namely conversations with family and neighbors and the contemplation and reflection that fireplaces inspire. The book is a “study” or demonstration of the conversation that fireplaces inspire. Continue reading Backlog Studies (Excerpts)
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Charles Dudley Warner – Biographical and Critical Sources
Biographical and Critical Sources
Harriet Lewis Paff, Diary entry, No Date, “What I Know About Mark Twain”, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, YCAL MSS 852.
SLC to Mary Mason Fairbanks, 16 Apr 1873, Hartford, Conn. (UCCL 00900). In Mark Twain Project Online. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. 2007.
Trinity College Archives, Watkinson Library Manuscripts, Monday Evening Club Record, Vol. 1. Joseph H. Twichell, “Qualities of Warner’s Humor,” The Century Magazine, volume 65, no.3 (Jan. 1903), pp.378-80.
Steve Courtney, “Hartford’s Elia,” Studies in American Humor, New Series 3, No. 22, Special Issue: Literary Comedians, Literary Comedy, and Mark Twain (2010), pp. 115-127.
George Parsons Lathrop, “A Model State Capital”, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, vol.71, no.425 (Oct., 1885), pp.715-734.
Horst H. Kruse, “A Matter of Style: How Olivia Langdon Clemens and Charles Dudley Warner Tried to Team and to Tame the Genius of Mark Twain”, The New England Quarterly, vol.72, no.2 (June, 1999), pp.232-250.
Annie Fields, Charles Dudley Warner (New York, 1904).
Thomas R. Lounsbury, “Biographical Sketch” in Charles Dudley Warner, The Relation of Literature to Life.