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[Mrs. Bennett]

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  • Title: [Mrs. Bennett]
  • Date: 2 July 1858
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: per.00895
  • Source: Brooklyn Daily Times, 2 July 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 Brandi Faulkner Stefan Schöberlein Karie Cobb
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "[Mrs. Bennett]." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 16 July 2024. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: per.00895.xml (TEI)
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☞Mrs. Bennett1, the wife of the editor of the Herald,2 is expected home about the 7th of next month. The residence of the family at Fort Washington, lately purchased, is being fitted up in a style worthy of a marchioness. Every department is being prepared by artistes in their particular line, and in fact the most lavish expenditures are being made to make her residence in this vulgar, democratic country as acceptable as possible. Yet after all, it is feared she will not consent to stay among us more than a few months.

Notes:

1. Henrietta Agnes Bennett(1820–1873) was the wife of James Gordon Bennett (1795–1872). [back]

2. The New York Herald was one of the leading New York City papers during Whitman’s lifetime. It was run by James Gordon Bennett, Sr., and his son and leaned Democrat, while loudly proclaiming its political independence. It was published from 1835 to 1924. See also The New York Herald (Poems in Periodicals)." [back]

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