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THE LAST DAYS
Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
in Mencken: The American Iconoclast
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195072389
- eISBN:
- 9780199787982
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195072389.003.0053
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
Mencken's final illness was marked by seven long years of being unable to read or write, and the devoted care given to him by his brother, August Mencken. The chapter reveals new information on ... More
FRIENDS AND RELATIVES
Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
in Mencken: The American Iconoclast
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195072389
- eISBN:
- 9780199787982
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195072389.003.0050
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
The deaths of Mencken's friends, among them Edgar Lee Masters, Theodore Dreiser, and Joseph Hergesheimer left him free to seek out the company of other standbys: his publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, and ... More
THE CITIZEN OF BALTIMORE
Marion Elizabeth Rodgers
in Mencken: The American Iconoclast
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195072389
- eISBN:
- 9780199787982
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195072389.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter presents an overview of Mencken's German-American family background and childhood, focusing on Baltimore during the Gilded Age of the 1880s and 1890s, and how it formed his worldview and ... More
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