Elsie Venner : a romance of destiny
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Title
Elsie Venner : a romance of destiny
Subject
Title pages
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
Description
First edition of Holmes' novel, Elsie Venner. This is a presentation copy from Holmes to Henry Jacob Bigelow (1818-1890). After Holmes’ death, his friend and fellow novelist William Dean Howells (1837-1920) said of Holmes' work, “His novels all belonged to an order of romance which was as distinctly his own as the form of dramatized essay which he invented in the Autocrat. If he did not think poorly of them, he certainly did not think too proudly, and I heard him quote with relish the phrase of a lady who had spoken of them to him as his ‘medicated novels.’ That, indeed, was perhaps what they were; a faint, faint odor of the pharmacopoeia clung to their pages; their magic was scientific. He knew this better than any one else, of course, and if any one had said it in his turn he would hardly have minded it. But what he did mind was the persistent misinterpretation of his intention in certain quarters where he thought he had the right to respectful criticism in stead of the succession of sneers that greeted the successive numbers of his story; and it was no secret that he felt the persecution keenly.”
Abstract
Title page of Elsie Venner by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
Creator
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
Publisher
Ticknor and Fields
Date Created
1861
Rights
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Access Rights
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Is Part Of
Holmes Collection (PS1960.A1 1861, v. 1)
Format
text
Extent
1 title page
Language
English
Type
text
Identifier
DigID0002190
Provenance
From the collections of the Boston Medical Library
Files
Collection
Citation
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894, “Elsie Venner : a romance of destiny,” OnView, accessed April 29, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/6319.