Wendell Phillips Garrison
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| Born | Cambridgeport, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | Journalist, editor |
Wendell Phillips Garrison (1840–1907) was an American editor and author.
Early life
He was born at Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, a son of William Lloyd Garrison. He graduated from Harvard in 1861 and was literary editor of the Nation from 1865 to 1906. [1]
Career
As a young man, Garrison had adopted pacifist and anti-imperialist beliefs. [2] He had assisted E. L. Godkin in establishing the magazine. Henry Villard, who merged the Nation with the New York Evening Post, was Garrison's brother-in-law. Garrison also wrote several books, including What Mr. Darwin Saw, an abridged and illustrated version of Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle for children. [3]
Works
W. P. Garrison contributed to periodicals, compiled Bedside Poetry: a Parents' Assistant (1887), and wrote:
- What Mr. Darwin Saw in his Voyage Round the World in the Ship "Beagle", Harper & Bros., 1880 [1st Pub. 1879].
- William Lloyd Garrison, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1885-1889 [with his brother, F. J. Garrison, a life of their father].
- The Reform of the Senate, Reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly, 1891.
- Parables for School and Home, Longmans, Green & Co., 1897.
- The New Gulliver, The Marion Press, 1898 [a satire on Calvinism].
- Memoirs of Henry Villard, Vol. 2, Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1904.
- Letters and Memorials of Wendell Philips Garrison, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909 [1st Pub. 1908].
Articles
- "William Lloyd Garrison," The Century Magazine, August 1885.
- "William James Stillman," The Century Magazine, September 1893.
References
- ↑ William Lloyd Garrison, Walter M. Merrill (ed.) The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: Let the Oppressed Go Free, 1861-1867. Harvard University Press, 1979. ISBN 9780674526655 (p.9)
- ↑ Peter Brock, Pacifism in the United States : from the colonial era to the First World War. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1970. ISBN 9781400878376 (p.701).
- ↑ Bernard Lightmann, "The Popularization of Evolution and Victorian Culture", in Lightman and Bennett Zon, Evolution and Victorian Culture. Cambridge University Press, 2014. ISBN 9781139992305 (p.302-3).
Further reading
- Murphey, Dwight D. "The Nation and The New Republic," in Liberalism in Contemporary America, Chap. V, Council for Social & Economic Studies, 1992.
External links
- Works by or about Wendell Phillips Garrison at Internet Archive
- Correspondence of Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907
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