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Biography

Name: Thomas Nelson Page
Birth Date: April 23, 1853
Death Date: November 1, 1922
Place of Birth: Oakland, Virginia, United States
Place of Death: Oakland, Virginia, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, fiction writer, essayist, diplomat

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Biography of Thomas Nelson Page
374 words, approx. 1 pages
The American fiction writer, essayist, and diplomat Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922), a typical Southern aristocrat, did much to cultivate the popular conception of antebellum plantation life. Born at Oakland, Va., on an ancestral plantation, Thomas...
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Biography of Thomas Nelson Page
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Thomas Nelson Page's importance to southern literature results from his nostalgic short stories that articulate and popularize the myth of the South's Edenic origins, its prelapsarian heroes and heroines, and its fall. A self-proclaimed Homer, Page...
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Biography of Thomas Nelson Page
2,553 words, approx. 9 pages
One of the most popular authors of the Reconstruction South, Thomas Nelson Page not only articulated a consistent view of plantation life as he saw it but also served as a spokesman for his generation of Southerners. Page's contemporary, Southern...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Thomas Nelson Page Information
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Thomas Nelson Page (April 23 1853 – November 1 1922) of Virginia was a lawyer and American writer. He also served as the U.S. ambassador to Italy during the administration of President Woodrow Wilson, including the important period of World War...


News and Journals
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The Mississippi Quarterly
Thomas Nelson Page's Sonnet to Amelie Rives *. (Document).
12/22/2000: 1,132 words, approx. 4 pages
IT WOULD SEEM THAT THOMAS NELSON PAGE (1853-1922) and Amelie Louise Rives (1863-1945) had much in common. They were both born in Virginia: Page at Oakland, Hanover County, and Rives at nearby Richmond. They both became prominent: Page as the author of such works...
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The Mississippi Quarterly
The First Meeting of Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris.
03/22/2000: 2,450 words, approx. 8 pages
AMONG THE PAGE FAMILY PAPERS, recently acquired by the Virginia Historical Society, is a letter from Thomas Nelson Page (1853-1922) to his wife of only two years, Anne Seddon Bruce Page (1867-1888), in which he describes his first meeting with Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908)....


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Kimball King
5,754 words, approx. 19 pages
King argues that Page's development of the Southern plantation tradition presents a contradiction between intent and outcome; his panegyrics of the antebellum South inadvertently reveal the fatal weaknesses of the plantation system.
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Critical Essay by Harriet R. Holman
5,207 words, approx. 17 pages
Holman focuses on the non-Southern stories collected in Under the Crust, which found inhospitable magazine editors because they did not conform to Page's earlier local color stories of Southern chivalry.
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Critical Essay by Lucinda H. MacKethan
4,874 words, approx. 16 pages
MacKethan relates how Page created his Arcadian vision of the antebellum South from his conflicted awareness that the Old South was forever destroyed yet still a symbol of strength and pride for the New South.
 


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