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Though scarcely remembered today, the poet George Arnold was mourned by many when he died on November 3, 1865. A contributor to magazines...

I am very glad to have a copy of your " Victorian Anthology." It is another monument to your learning, judgment, and taste. You ...

When Edward Rowland Sill heard that the well-known and highly-respected editor Edmund Clarence Stedman intended to include him in a boo...

As the Civil War raged, Edmund Clarence Stedman was serving as a field correspondent for the New York Tribune . Infused with a burst of p...

The copyright for Poems, Lyrical and Idyllic , by Edmund Clarence Stedman was taken out on April 12, 1860. It was the 26-year old 's fi...

The Authors' Club in New York threw a dinner in honor of Richard Henry Stoddard on March 25, 1897. Edmund Clarence Stedman opened the...

When the New York-based Authors Club honored Edmund Clarence Stedman on December 6, 1900, it was done specifically to recognize the complet...

On October 18, 1859, the New York Tribune published a poem that nearly cost Edmund Clarence Stedman his life. Only a few days earlier, the...

Edmund Clarence Stedman was born on October 8, 1833 in Hartford, Connecticut. His father reported the birth to a family member of "a f...

June 25, 1876 was the first day of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Montana), when combined forces of Native Americans fought against the ...

On December 7, 1874, Edmund Clarence Stedman (pictured left) wrote to William Dean Howells (below) that he had just read the latter's ...

"Thanks for the volume," Thomas Wentworth Higginson wrote to Edmund Clarence Stedman in a letter dated November 16, 1873. The vo...

Honoring the dedication of the Statue of Liberty only days earlier , the October 30, 1886 issue of Harper's Weekly included the above i...

The passing of the International Copyright Act of 1891 was certainly reason to celebrate. It marked the first time that United States law pr...