Eggleston, Edward
Eggleston, Edward( 1837–1902),born in Indiana, received a strict Methodist rearing and was educated in country schools. Both influences are important in his later writing. He was successively a Bible agent, a circuit-riding Methodist minister, a pastor of small churches, and a writer and editor of Sunday school and juvenile magazines. By 1874 he had abandoned Methodism and founded a Church of Christian Endeavor in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was pastor of this “creedless” congregation until 1879, when he retired to devote himself to writing. He was already famous for his novels, particularly The Hoosier Schoolmaster (1871), marked by a pious sentimentalism but distinguished for its realism in depicting the backwoods country of Indiana. Other fiction includes The End of the World (1872), an Indiana love story, whose background is concerned with the belief of the Millerites in an approaching day of doom; The Mystery of Metropolisville...
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