Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1749-1816) was an American lawyer and writer. His reputation as a writer rests almost entirely on "Modern Chivalry," a novel in which he humorously reveals the confusion and c...
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During his lifetime, Hugh Henry Brackenridge worked as a schoolteacher, an army chaplain, an editor, a politician, a lawyer, and a judge; and he wrote verse, drama, essays, and prose fiction, achievin...
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Hugh Henry Brackenridge played an important role in America's literary and social history. His career was colorful, remarkably varied, and uniquely American. An immigrant who rose from poverty to beco...
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Hugh Henry Brackenridge
Hugh Henry Brackenridge