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George William Curtis

George William Curtis was assigned Harper’s Magazine’s Easy Chair column in 1852, 1853, or 1854, while later also occupying Harper’s Weekly’s similarly minded Lounger column. He held this perch until his death in 1892—one of three to die while doing so. Curtis was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on February 24, 1824. A descendant of onetime enemy of the state John Curtis, he attended as a youth the newly formed Brook Farm, a utopian Transcendentalist community described by Ralph Waldo…

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