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Wendell Phillips Garrison

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Occupation
  
Journalist, editor

Name
  
Wendell Garrison


Role
  
Author

Parents
  
William Lloyd Garrison

Wendell Phillips Garrison

Died
  
1907, Essex County, New Jersey, United States

Books
  
William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879, William Lloyd Garrison, Eighteen Hundred Five to Eighteen Seventy-Nine

Grandparents
  
Frances Maria Lloyd, Abijah Garrison

Education
  
Harvard College, Harvard University

Wendell Phillips Garrison (1840–1907) was an American editor and author.

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Early life

He was born at Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, a son of William Lloyd Garrison. He graduated from Harvard in 1861 and was literary editor of the Nation from 1865 to 1906.

Career

As a young man, Garrison had adopted pacifist and anti-imperialist beliefs. He had assisted E. L. Godkin in establishing the magazine. Henry Villard, who merged the Nation with the New York Evening Post, was Garrison's brother-in-law. Garrison also wrote several books, including What Mr. Darwin Saw, an abridged and illustrated version of Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle for children.

Works

W. P. Garrison contributed to periodicals, compiled Bedside Poetry: a Parents' Assistant (1887), and wrote:

  • What Mr. Darwin Saw in his Voyage Round the World in the Ship "Beagle", Harper & Bros., 1880 [1st Pub. 1879].
  • William Lloyd Garrison, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1885-1889 [with his brother, F. J. Garrison, a life of their father].
  • The Reform of the Senate, Reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly, 1891.
  • Parables for School and Home, Longmans, Green & Co., 1897.
  • The New Gulliver, The Marion Press, 1898 [a satire on Calvinism].
  • Memoirs of Henry Villard, Vol. 2, Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1904.
  • Letters and Memorials of Wendell Philips Garrison, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909 [1st Pub. 1908].

    • Articles

  • "William Lloyd Garrison," The Century Magazine, August 1885.
  • "William James Stillman," The Century Magazine, September 1893.

    • References

    Wendell Phillips Garrison Wikipedia
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