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Washington Irving (1783–1859)

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American author, lawyer and diplomat
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Washington Irving

Works

• Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey (1836)
• The Adventures of Captain Bonneville (1837)
• Astoria (a.k.a. Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond The Rocky Mountains) (1836)
• Bracebridge Hall (1819)
• Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada (1829)
• The Crayon Papers (1825)
• The Devil and Tom Walker (1824)
• Knickerbocker's History of New York (1809)
• The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (1828)
• Mahomet and his Successors[1]
• Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography (a.k.a. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith) (1840)
• The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon (1819-1820), including "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

  1820 Boston: Dana Estes edition (external scan)

• Tales of a Traveler (1824)
• A Tour on the Prairies
• Voyages of the Companions of Columbus (1831)
• The Perverse Widow and The Widow (1909), reprint with Steele's The Perverse Widow
• Tales of the Alhambra (publ. 1832, revised 1851)
  • Legend Of The Arabian Astrologer
• Wolfert's Roost, and other Sketches (London, 1855)

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" (1859)
• "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)