The Gilded Age (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
- First Published: 1873
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social satire
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Setting: The United States
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Nineteenth century, Politicians, Moral conditions, Corruption, Entrepreneurship or entrepreneurs, Real estate, Land settlement, Coal or coal mining
- Locales: Washington, D.C., Tennessee, Missouri
Characters Discussed
Colonel Beriah Sellers, an improvident opportunist of Missouri and an operator on a grand scale.
Squire Hawkins, of Obedstown, Tennessee, persuaded by Sellers to move to Missouri, where his affairs fail to prosper.
Nancy Hawkins, his wife.
Emily, their daughter.
George Washington, their son.
Henry Clay, an orphan adopted by Hawkins during his journey.
Laura, the survivor of a steamboat accident, who is also adopted by Hawkins. She is fraudulently married by Colonel Selby, who already has a wife. When she sees him...
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