Charles Henry Webb
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Charles Henry Webb was an American poet, author and journalist.
Born in New York, Webb spent three years at sea, and was then taken on by The New York Times
. He later moved to California
, worked as a journalist on the San Francisco Bulletin and was an editor of The Californian
. He published a number of parodies and poems. He died in New York on May 24, 1905.
Born in New York, Webb spent three years at sea, and was then taken on by The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
. He later moved to California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, worked as a journalist on the San Francisco Bulletin and was an editor of The Californian
The Californian (1860s newspaper)
The Californian was a San Francisco literary newspaper published weekly from May 28, 1864 until February 1, 1868.-History:The Californian was started in May 1864 by publishers P.J. Thomas, A.A. Stickney and John Collner. Charles Henry "Inigo" Webb was the first editor, and Fitz Hugh Ludlow was one...
. He published a number of parodies and poems. He died in New York on May 24, 1905.
Publications
- Our Friend from Victoria (Drama, 1865)
- Arrah-na-Poke (Drama, 1865)
- Liffith Lank, or Lunacy (1867), a parody of Charles ReadeCharles ReadeCharles Reade was an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth.-Life:Charles Reade was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire to John Reade and Anne Marie Scott-Waring; William Winwood Reade the influential historian , was his nephew. He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford,...
’s Griffith Gaunt - St. Twelmo, or the Cuneiform Cyclopedist of Chattanooga (1868), a parody of Augusta Evans Wilson’s St. Elmo
- John Paul's Book: Moral and Instructive: Consisting of Travels, Tales, Poetry, and Like Fabrications (1874)
- The Wickedest Woman in New York (1875)
- Parodies, Prose, and Verse (1876)
- Sea-Weed and what we seed: my Vacation at Long Branch and Saratoga (1876)
- Vagrom Verse (1889)
- With Lead and Line along Varying Shores: A Book of Poems (1901)