Author:Washington Irving

Washington Irving
(1783–1859)

Washington Irving

Works

• Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. (1802)
• Salmagundi (1807-1808)
• Knickerbocker's History of New York (1809)
• The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon (1819-1820)

• Rip Van Winkle
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

• Bracebridge Hall (1819)
• Tales of a Traveler (1824)
• The Devil and Tom Walker (1824)
• The Crayon Papers (1825)
• A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (1828) (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4)
• Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada (1829)
• Voyages of the Companions of Columbus (1831)
• Tales of the Alhambra (publ. 1832, revised 1851)

• Legend Of The Arabian Astrologer

• The Crayon Miscellany (1835)

• Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey (1836)
• A Tour on the Prairies
• Legends of the Conquest of Spain (1836)

• Astoria (a.k.a. Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond The Rocky Mountains) (1836)
• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville (1837)
• Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography (a.k.a. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith) (1840)
• Biography and Poetical Remains of the Late Margaret Miller Davidson (1841)

• The Perverse Widow and The Widow (1909), reprint with Steele's The Perverse Widow

• Mahomet and His Successors (1849)
• Wolfert's Roost, and other Sketches (London, 1855)
• The Life of George Washington, 5 volumes, (1855-1859)
• Strange Stories by a Nervous Gentleman (1824)
  • The Adventure of My Aunt
  • The Adventure of My Uncle
  • The Adventure of the German Student
  • The Bold Dragoon
  • The Great Unknown
  • The Adventure of the Mysterious Picture

Compilations

• The Complete Works of Washington Irving, published by Crowell, 1848
• The Works of Washington Irving: The Kinderhook Edition, published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1893

Works about Irving

• "Elia, and Geoffrey Crayon," in The Spirit of the Age (pp. 409−424), by William Hazlitt, London: Henry Colburn (1825)
• A Fable for Critics (1848) by James Russell Lowell
• "A Day with Washington Irving" by Charles Lanman (1859)
• "Washington Irving" in The Maclise Portrait-Gallery, by William Bates (1883)
• "Irving, Washington," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Irving, Washington," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Irving, Washington," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Irving, Washington," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

On his works

• "Knickerbocker History of New York, The," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Ichabod Crane," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)