Typee: A Romance of the South Seas

Typee: A Romance of the South Seas

Typee: A Romance of the South Seas Of the trinity of American authors whose births made the...
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Author: Melville, Herman,1819-1891
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Typee: A Romance of the South Seas

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Typee: A Romance of the South Seas

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Author: Melville, Herman,1819-1891
Format: eBook
Language: English

Typee: A Romance of the South Seas

Of the trinity of American authors whose births made the year 1819 a notable one in our literary history,Lowell, Whitman, and Melville,it is interesting to observe that the two latter were both descended, on the fathers and mothers sides respectively, from have families of British New England and Dutch New York extraction. Whitman and Van Velsor, Melville and Gansevoort, were the several combinations which produced these men; and it is easy to trace in the life and character of each author the qualities derived from his joint ancestry. Here, however, the resemblance ceases, for Whitmans forebears, while worthy country people of good descent, were not prominent in public or private life. Melville, on the other hand, was of distinctly patrician birth, his paternal and maternal grandfathers having been leading characters in the Revolutionary War; their descendants still maintaining a dignified social position. Allan Melville, great-grandfather of Herman Melville, removed from Scotland to America in 1748, and established himself as a merchant in Boston. His son, Major Thomas Melville, was a leader in the famous Boston Tea Party of 1773 and afterwards became an officer in the Continental Army. He is reported to have been a Conservative in all matters except his opposition to unjust taxation, and he wore the old-fashioned cocked hat and knee-breeches until his death, in 1832, thus becoming the original of Doctor Holmess poem, The Last Leaf. Major Melvilles son Allan, the father of Herman, was an importing merchant,first in Boston, and later in New York. He was a man of much culture, and was an extensive traveller for his time. He married Maria Gansevoort, daughter of General Peter Gansevoort, best known as the hero of Fort Stanwix. This fort was situated on the present site of Rome, N.Y.; and there Gansevoort, with a small body of men, held in check reinforcements on their way to join Burgoyne, until the disastrous ending of the latters campaign of 1777 was insured. The Gansevoorts, it should be said, were at that time and subsequently residents of Albany, N.Y. Herman Melville was born in New York on August 1,1819, and received his early education in that city. There he imbibed his first love of adventure, listening, as he says in Redburn, while his father of winter evenings, by the well-remembered sea-coal fire in old Greenwich Street, used to tell my brother and me of the monstrous waves at sea, mountain high, of the masts bending like twigs, and all about Havre and Liverpool. The death of his father in reduced circumstances necessitated the removal of his mother and the family of eight brothers and sisters to the village of Lansingburg, on the Hudson River. There Herman remained until 1835, when he attended the Albany Classical School for some months. Dr. Charles E. West, the well-known Brooklyn educator, was then in charge of the school, and remembers the lads deftness in English composition, and his struggles with mathematics. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 1900
Author: Melville, Herman
Release Date: Sep 1, 1999
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Stedman, Arthur Griffin, 1859-1908

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