Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber (12 July 1814-25 November 1890), journalist and humorist, left his Portsmouth, New Hampshire, home to become a printer's helper in Boston. He joined the Boston Post and in...
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B. P. Shillaber made his way into literature over the same indirect route taken by a Bostonian of an earlier day, Benjamin Franklin. In 1847 he slipped a sketch of his into the Boston Post, where he w...
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As a Boston writer and editor, Benjamin Shillaber adapted the popular Yankee traditions of the country bumpkin and crackerbox philosopher to a new urban environment. In the mid nineteenth century, his...
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Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber