River of Shadows (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Rebecca Solnit
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: Primarily 1854-1892
- Setting: Northern California (including San Francisco, Yosemite, and Palo Alto)
- Principal Characters: Eadweard Muybridge, Leland Stanford
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Nineteenth century, California, West, U.S., England or English people, Photography or photographers, San Francisco, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Technology, Great Britain
- Locales: San Francisco, CA, Palo Alto, CA, Northern California, Yosemite, CA
Eadweard Muybridge was born Edward James Muggeridge in Kingston-upon-Thames on April 9, 1830. He changed his name three times: from Muggeridge to Muygridge in the 1850’s, from Muygridge to Muybridge in the 1860’s, and finally from Edward to Eadweard in 1882. His family members were grain and coal merchants. After leaving the local grammar school, he also left his commercial family and their provincial town to sail for the United States. By the spring of 1856 he was established as a bookseller in San Francisco, where he would remain, on and off, until the 1880’s. The later years of...
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