Warner, Charles Dudley
Warner, Charles Dudley( 1829–1900),was born in Massachusetts, reared in western New York, and graduated from Hamilton College (1851). After publishing his commencement oration as The Book of Eloquence (1851), he went to Missouri as a railroad surveyor, then to the University of Pennsylvania (LL.B., 1858), and practiced law in Chicago (1858–60). Determining upon a literary and journalistic career, he made his home in Hartford, Conn., and after 1861 was editor of the Courant, although frequently occupied in other matters. His first mature book, My Summer in a Garden (1870), a series of essays about his farm, possessed the quiet humor and mellow grace of Irving, which also characterized his later essays, ranging from recollections of his childhood to literary criticism, and including Backlog Studies (1873), Baddeck (1874), Being a Boy (1878), On Horseback (1888), As We Were Saying...
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