Oliver Wendell Holmes (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Oliver Wendell Holmes (hohmz), the last of the great literary Brahmins of the nineteenth century, was in every way a true member of that class that he described in his novel Elsie Venner as “this . . . harmless, inoffensive untitled aristocracy” whose qualities of intellectual leadership “are congenital and hereditary.” He could list among his ancestors on his mother’s side the Phillipses, the Wendells, the Quincys, the Hancocks, and even Anne Bradstreet; his father, the Reverend Abiel Holmes, was descended from a long line of Calvinistic Connecticut divines. His son,...
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