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- 2. Washington Irving 1783-1859 born inNew York City (near present-day Wall St.) youngest of 11 children parents were ScottishEnglish immigrants
- 3. Biographical Information his parentsgreatly admired General George Washington (hence his name) his father became a wealthy merchant he trained as a lawyer but practiced only briefly showed literary promise early in his life
- 4. Home of WashingtonIrving, New York
- 5. Writing Career Begins 1802-3published a series of newspaper articles 1807-8 published the Salmagundi papers 1809 published 1st major work – A History of New York it was supposedly written by Deidrich Knickerbocker, an old, eccentric historian
- 6. this work markedIrving’s future course it was designed solely for entertainment it taught no serious moral lessons his fiancée died in 1809 accounts for melancholic cast over rest of his life and work
- 7. Career Shifts toEurope in 1815 sailed for England to take charge of family business in Liverpool when it bankrupted, he concentrated on literary career traveled throughout England, France, Spain, Germany, and Switzerland wrote history of Christopher Columbus
- 8. Literary Career Continues 1819- 1820 published The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, it included “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” Old Rip
- 9. Irving’s Literary Pseudonyms DietrichKnickerbocker Jonathan Oldstyle Geoffrey Crayon
- 10. Irving Widely Recognized Bythe late 1820s, Irving had gained a reputation throughout Europe and America as a great writer and thinker
- 11. Returns to Americain 1832 returned from Europe to New York established his home Sunnyside in Tarrytown never married or had children for next 25 years he shared Sunnyside with his brother Ebenezer and Ebenezer's 5 daughters
- 12. Sunnyside, Home ofIrving
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- 14. Additional Views ofSunnyside
- 15. First Genuine AmericanStories “Rip Van Winkle” “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” contained distinctive American settings and characters incorporated German folktales and legends
- 16. Irving’s Grave On November 28,1859, on the eve of the Civil War, Washington Irving died at Sunnyside surrounded by his family.
- 17. Old Dutch Churchin Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. He was buried in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at the Old Dutch Church
- 18. Works Cited All photosin this PowerPoint presentation came from the American Memory Collection of the Library of Congress Back to Beginning Home
Editor's Notes
- #2 Just as he Americanized European folktales, Washington Irving helped to popularize various Dutch, German and British yuletide traditions in America—the most famous being the gift-bearing Saint Nicholas (familiarly known as Sinter Klaas by the Dutch and later, our modern day Santa Claus) whom Irving introduced to American readers under one of his pseudo names.
- #3 Many people in Europe and England felt that America would never develop a literary voice of its own. But then came Washington Irving, the youngest and not to well educated son of a pious hardware importer and his amiable wife.
- #6 One of Irving’s major invented narrators was a man he called Deidrich Knickerbocker. Irving pretended that Knickerbocker was the author of a book called A History of New York.
- #7 The mysterious Knickerbocker is supposted to have left the manuscript to his landlord in payment of back rent. This fake and comical history, in which the entire American past was ridiculed established Washington Irving as the foremost New York satirist.
- #8 In 1815, Irving was sent off by his father to Liverpool, England, to look after the failing overseas branch of the family business. Irving found the business to be beyond repair, but he loved the British literary scene and stayed abroad for 17 years. He traveled and devoted himself entirely to writing, basing many of his first drafts on German Folk Tales.
- #9 These tales were narrated by yet another of Irving’s comic voices, Geoffrey Crayon and the stories were collected under the title The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon.
- #10 Under these names and eventually his own, Irving became Americas first international literary celebrity. This was a role that Irving enjoyed and exploited to the fullest.
- #11 He had always loved parties, people, and praise. Now he had access to the literacy circles of the world. It was a remarkable achievement for the unpromising child of a middle-class American family.
- #16 Irving’s next book, Tales of a Traveller, which included “The Devil and Tom Walker”, the story that we will be reading, was met with unfavorable reviews by the public and Irving stopped writing fiction all together.
- #17 Sadly, he never wrote anything that matched the success of the two great tales in The Sketch Book.
- #18 Irving is most remembered for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle.