Harris
Harris names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below. 1 of them is described by more than one encyclopedia.
Harris Joel Chandler
Described by 2 of the 6 encyclopedias.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
Joel Chandler, an American journalist and author. He was born at Eatonton, Georgia, and lived on a plantation until the close of the war. After serving as a printer's apprentice he obtained a position on the staff of the Savannah Daily News. In 1890 he became editor of the Atlantic Constitution, in which periodical his Uncle Remus sketches first saw the light of day. Among his writings in book form are The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, Nights with Uncle Remus, Balaam and his Master, Minerva Ann, Uncle Remus, his Songs and his Sayings. Mr. Harris possesses a remarkable sympathy not only with human life, but also with animals. His familiarity with the negroes during the life on the plantation, coupled with this sympathy, made possible his creation of "Uncle Remus," of "Brer Fox," and "Brer Rabbit," which have delighted young and old for a quarter of a century.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOEL CHANDLER, American journalist and story writer; born in Eatonton, Ga., Dec. 8, 1848. began life as a printer's apprentice, and afterward studied law, drifting into journalism. He had a ad a thorough familiarity with the negro of the bellum period, and while editing an Atlanta paper he produced for it the series of "Uncle Remus" sketches and songs which immediately made him known. "The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation" appeared in 1880, followed by "Nights with Uncle Remus" (1883); "Mingo and Other Sketches" (1883); "Daddy Jake, the Runaway" (1889); "On the Wings of Occasion" (1900); "Told by Uncle Remus" (1905); "Uncle Remus and Br'er Rabbit" (1907). He died in 1908.
Harris FRANK, an editor and writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANK, an editor and writer, born in Galway, Ireland, 1854. In 1870 he came to the United States where he studied in the University of Kansas. Later he was also a student in half a dozen European universities, but took no degrees in any of them. In 1875 he was admitted to the Kansas bar, but did not practice, returning to Europe shortly after. He became editor of the London "Evening News" and the "Fortnightly Review," and later owner and editor of the "Saturday Review." He was intimately acquainted with the most prominent literary celebrities of Great Britain and wrote one of the most enlightening books on the life of Oscar Wilde (Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde, 1916). Later he returned to the United States and took over the ownership and editorship of "Pearson's Magazine," of New York City. Among his works are: "The Bomb" (1886-1909); "The Man Shakespeare" (1909); "Unpathed Waters" (1913); and "Great Days" (a novel, 1914).
Harris SIR AUGUSTUS GLOS- SOP, an English actor
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR AUGUSTUS GLOS- SOP, an English actor, manager, and dramatist; born in Paris, in 1852. Apbecame lessee and manager of Drury Lane Theater, where he produced popular pantomimes and melodramas written in collaboration among them: "The World"; "Youth"; "Human Nature"; "Run of Luck"; "Prodigal Daughter"; "Life of Pleasure"; "Derby Winner." He induced the revival of grand opera at Covent Garden. He was made sheriff of London and knighted in 1891. He died in Folkestone, England, Jan. 22, 1896.
Harris CORRA MAY (WHITE)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CORRA MAY (WHITE), an American writer, born at Farm Hill, Ga., in 1869. In 1887 she married Rev. Lundy Howard Harris. She began writing in 1899. Her published books include "The Jessica Letters" (1904); "A Circuit Rider's Wife" (1910); "Eve's Second Husband" (1910); and "In Search of a Husband" (1913). She visited Europe during the World War and contributed articles to the "Saturday Evening Post."
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Aiton's said in 1910 that Uncle Remus had "delighted young and old for a quarter of a century," and both accounts treat Joel Chandler Harris's stories as his unquestioned achievement; that reputation has been the biggest casualty of the century since. The tales are now read as African American folklore collected — critics would say appropriated — by a white journalist and framed in dialect and a contented-old-slave narrator that few publishers will reprint, and Disney's 1946 film of them, Song of the South, has been kept out of release since the 1980s. Harris's Atlanta home, the Wren's Nest, survives as a museum, and Collier's got his paper right where Aiton's slipped: it was the Atlanta Constitution, which he joined in 1876, not 1890. Of the others, Frank Harris went on to publish the frankly pornographic memoir My Life and Loves (1922-27), banned for decades, and his once-praised Wilde and Shakespeare books are now treated as largely invention; he died in 1931, Corra Harris in 1935.
Written for this edition, 2026.