Breakfast-Table

This exchange is from The Poet at The Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., published in 1872, but it could have been written yesterday.

Hugh Rawson: More Fowl Talk for the Holidays Hugh Rawson 2010

This exchange is from The Poet at The Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., published in 1872, but it could have been written yesterday.

Hugh Rawson: More Fowl Talk for the Holidays Hugh Rawson 2010

Howe surveyed some of The Atlantic's early contributors, and observed that of all of them, Oliver Wendell Holmes, who wrote a popular feature called "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" (consisting of discussion among various fictional personalities set around the breakfast table of a Boston boarding house), "stands obviously possessed of the strongest local flavor."

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Howe surveyed some of The Atlantic's early contributors, and observed that of all of them, Oliver Wendell Holmes, who wrote a popular feature called "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" (consisting of discussion among various fictional personalities set around the breakfast table of a Boston boarding house), "stands obviously possessed of the strongest local flavor."

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Six years later, in "The Autocrat and his Fellow-Boarders" (August 1909), Samuel McChord Crothers paid homage to "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table," Holmes's beloved Atlantic serial.

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Six years later, in "The Autocrat and his Fellow-Boarders" (August 1909), Samuel McChord Crothers paid homage to "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table," Holmes's beloved Atlantic serial.

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ATTRIBUTION: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, chapter 6, p. 143 (1868), originally published 1858, attributing this remark to “one of the wittiest of men.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-94) 1989

ATTRIBUTION: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, p. 93 (1891).

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-94) 1989

'The Professor' at the Breakfast-Table we do indeed know, and it is no unwonted thing for us to meet him in Tremont street, merry and wise as ever.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

The Professor at the Breakfast-Table; with the Story of Iris.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various