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Cable (1844- ), Thomas Nelson Page (1853- ), Constance Fenimore Woolson (1848-1894), Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835- ), Hamlin Garland (1860- ), Ambrose Bierce (1842-?), Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892), and Kate Chopin (1851-1904). "O. Henry" was the pen name adopted by William Sydney Porter. He began his short story career by contributing Whistling Dick's Christmas Stocking to McClure's Magazine in 1899. He followed it with many Best American Humorous Short Stories, by Various 10 stories

by far. And I wonder what kind of men they were, that hindered the King from taking this resolution ? A. You may know by the declarations themselves, which are very long and full of quotations of records and of cases formerly reported, that the penners of them were either lawyers by profession, or such gentlemen as had the ambition to be thought so. Besides, I told you before, that those which were then likeliest to have their counsel asked in this business, were averse to absolute monarchy, as

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Porte-Saint-Martin. From the Second Empire onward, popular fiction, after the now standard first outing in newspapers, appeared in editions of 30,000 copies and provided a good, sometimes spectacular living: Ponson du Terrail earned a fortune with his pen. Cheap collections, vigorously promoted (like Hachette’s ‘Bibliothèque du Chemin de Fer’, 1852, intended for travellers, a new category of reader, or the ‘Collection Michel Lévy’, 1856, which offered 1,414 titles 1887) gave a measure of financial independence