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| Name: |
James De Mille | | Birth Date: |
August 23, 1833 | | Death Date: |
January 28, 1880 | | Nationality: |
Canadian | | Gender: |
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Biography of James De Mille
1,006 words, approx. 3 pages
 Working at night and very fast, James De Mille wrote over twenty popular novels--"potboilers"--between 1861 and 1877. By day, he was the respected and respectable professor of rhetoric and history at Dalhousie University, Halifax, who taught his...
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Biography of James De Mille
2,830 words, approx. 9 pages
 James De Mille was one of the most successful and prolific nineteenth-century Canadian writers of popular fiction during his relatively short writing career. He is best remembered for A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (1888), an...


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James De Mille Information
136 words, approx. 1 pages
 James De Mille (23 August 1833 – 28 January 1880) was a professor at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and an early Canadian popular writer who published numerous works of popular fiction from the late 1860s through the 1870s. His most popular...



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 Dance Teacher
Agnes de Mille
10/01/2005: 1,088 words, approx. 4 pages A dancer, choreographer and writer who helped shape American dance Agnes de Mille (1905-1993), one of Broadway's best-known choreographers, is largely responsible for the development of musical theater as a distinct, and purely American, artform. Previously, dance was relegated to chorus routines interspersed...
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 The Washington Post
Consultant James Mills Dies at 48
12/10/1993: 671 words, approx. 2 pages James E. Mills, 48, a management consultant who worked for Republican presidential campaign organizations in Washington in the 1970s, died of a heart attack Dec. 5 at Suburban Hospital. A resident of the Washington area from 1971 to 1976, he returned to live...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Bruce F. MacDonald
9,946 words, approx. 33 pages
 In the following essay, MacDonald maintains that Helena's Household represents De Mille's questioning of the doctrines of the early Christian church and exploration of the many religious issues confronting him during his lifetime.
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Critical Essay by Charlotte Downey
2,816 words, approx. 9 pages
 In the following excerpt from her introduction to a 2000 edition of De Mille's Elements of Rhetoric, Downey presents a broad overview of the text, discussing De Mille's comments on style, organization of subject matter, use of emotionally charged language, and genres in literature.


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