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EDWARD PAYSON, an American novelist; born in Orange co., N. Y., March 7, 1838. He wrote a great number of very popular novels. His first novel, "Barriers Burned Away" (1872), met with immediate success, and was followed by "What Can She Do?" (1873) Do?" (1873); "The Opening of a Chestnut Burr" (1874) ; "From Jest to Earnest" (1875); "Near to Nature's Heart" (1876) ; "A Knight of the Nineteenth Century" (1877) ; "A Face Illumined" (1878) ; "A Day of Fate" (1880) ; "Without a Home" (1881) ; "His London Rivals" (1883) ; Rivals" (1883); "Nature's Serial Story" (1884) ; "Driven " (1884); "Driven Back to Eden" (1885) ; "He Fell in Love With His Wife" (1886) ; "The Earth ); "The Earth Trembled" (1887) ; "A Hornet's Nest" (1887) ; "Found, Yet Lost" (1888) ; "Miss Lou" (1888) ; and "Taken Alive, and Other Stories." He died in Cornwall, N. Y., July 19, 1888.