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George Albany

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  • Title: George Albany
  • Date: 11 October 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00870
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 11 October 1858: 2. Our transcription is based on a digital image of a microfilm scan of the original issue. Microfilm of original issue held at Pennsylvania State University Libraries. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the journalism, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism. However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified by the Whitman Archive journalism team as likely authored by Whitman. This decision is based on a combination of historical and (auto)biographical accounts, similarity to contemporary Whitman writings, a history of scholarly attribution, extant clippings retained by Whitman, computational stylometric analysis, and, in some cases, manuscript evidence in Whitman’s hand.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kaylen Michaelis Samantha Gilmore Brandi Faulkner Stefan Schöberlein Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "George Albany." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 17 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00870.xml (TEI)
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GEORGE ALBANY.—

Mr. Albany1 is widely celebrated in the world of fiction for the purity and high moral tone of his works. His three most renowned productions, the “Swamp Steed,” “Orange Girl of Venice” and “Last Witness,” while they contain all the elements of the most intense and thrilling fascination, are perfectly chaste in every word and expression—And they are not unappreciated by the public. The three works above mentioned have enjoyed an aggregate sale of three million copies, each far outselling the works of any other author, with the single exception of Ned Buntline’s2 “Mysteries and Miseries of New York.”

Notes:

1. George Albany is likely also Dennis Hannigan. [back]

2. Ned Buntline whose real name was Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr. (1821 or 23–1886) was an American author. [back]

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