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Sender: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Origins of the term "Gilded Age"
From: Larry Howe <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 15:49:05 -0700
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My copy of _GA_ has some front matter in which Twain is reported to have
skewered the kind of genre fiction that _GA_ imitates in a review appearing
in a magazine called _Golden Era_.    That link doesn't forge an inevitable
connection to Twain, but it's a start.

Larry Howe

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