RE:     Charles Brockden Brown


I believe that Mrs. Jules Hojnowski may be thinking of Charles Farrar
Browne, not Charles Brockden Brown.  The latter died 25 years before SLC
was born, so it seems unlikely that his lecture performances would have
influenced MT.  Moreover, I don't know of any reports of his lecturing; his
extensive responsibilities in publishing and writing for a series of
literary journals seemed to absorb all of his energies.

We do know, however, that Charles Farrar Browne (pseud. Artemus Ward) had
some influence on MT.  Still, if I'm wrong about C. B. Brown and MT, and
she has some evidence to share, I'd love to see it.

Last, please forgive the sentence fragment opening my last post.   It seems
I'm a much better proofreader after I've pushed the "send" button.


--LH
At 10:35 AM 4/30/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>Hi, I just joined the list and have been going through the archives to get a
>>feel for the discussion. I am a grad student at the University of Central
>>Florida and am looking forward to getting to know more about Twain. Oh, and
>>I'm currently reading _Life on the Mississippi_. Out of curiosity, can
anyone
>>tell me if Twain was influenced at all by Charles Brockden Brown or John
>>Milton?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Chris Hale
>
>Hello,
>        I just did a paper for a Folklore class, where I found that
>MT used Charles Brockden Brown as a "Master" and MT as the
>"apprentice" when he was learning how to become a lecturer.
>That is why MT has some material like Brown's.
>
>I'm hoping to publish this paper in a journal somewhere.
>
>Mrs. Jules Hojnowski
>