Washington Irving

A day after that he sent second get-well cards to both private detectives and signed them with the name Washington Irving.

Closing Time Joseph Heller 1994

Scott liked George Ticknor, [333] and he called Washington Irving "one of the best and pleasantest acquaintances I have made this many a day." [

Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature Margaret Ball

He might have been a grandson of Washington Irving, which is a proof of what I have already said, that none of the young American workers in the same field have so little as he of that imperfectly assimilated foreignness of suggestion which is sometimes regarded as the strength, but which is also in some degree the weakness, of the pictorial effort of the United States.

Picture and Text 1893 Henry James 1879

But Bryant would have been the first to name Washington Irving as the most renowned distinctively American man of letters whose figure, reproduced characteristically and with simple quaintness, should decorate the Park.

Literary and Social Essays George William Curtis 1858

He was a type of a gentleman of the old school, and he recalled Washington Irving's picture of the master of Bracebridge Hall.

Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853

"No mother can tolerate even a scratch on the body of her child, '' the court observed, recalling Washington Irving's words" a father may turn his back on his child; brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies; husbands may desert their wives, and wives their husbands.

Daily News & Analysis 2010

I have taken a berth in the packet-ship "Washington Irving," which leaves Boston for Liverpool next week, 5 October; having decided, after a little demurring and advising, to follow my inclination in shunning the steamer.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Thomas Carlyle 1838

The play opens in 1809; Washington Irving hopes to write an enduring work of American literature, so he sets his story in the 17th century.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Knickerbocker Holiday Fern Siegel 2011

The play opens in 1809; Washington Irving hopes to write an enduring work of American literature, so he sets his story in the 17th century.

Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Knickerbocker Holiday Fern Siegel 2011

Irvington, an affluent community of around 6,500 that is part of the Westchester town of Greenburgh, is named for the writer Washington Irving , whose nearby former home, Sunnyside, is now operated as a museum.

Westchester's Irvington Stays on Track Melanie Lefkowitz 2011