Agnes Repplier
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Agnes Repplier was an American essayist born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
. Her essays are esteemed for their scholarship and wit.
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
. Her essays are esteemed for their scholarship and wit.
Essay collections
- Books and Men (1888)
- Points of View (1891)
- Essays in Miniature (1892)
- Essays in Idleness (1893)
- In the Dozy Hours (1894)
- Varia (1897)
- Philadelphia: The Place and the People (1898)
- The Fireside Sphinx (1901)
- Compromises (1904)
- In Our Convent Days (1905)
- A Happy Half Century (1908)
- Americans and Others (1912)
- The Cat (1912)
- Counter Currents (1915)
- Points of Friction (1920)
- Under Dispute (1924)
- To Think of Tea! (1931)
- Times and Tendencies (1931)
- In Pursuit of Laughter (1936)
- Eight Decades (1937)
Biographical studies
- J. William White, M.D.; a Biography (1919)
- Life of Pere Marquette (1929) (Jacques MarquetteJacques MarquetteFather Jacques Marquette S.J. , sometimes known as Père Marquette, was a French Jesuit missionary who founded Michigan's first European settlement, Sault Ste. Marie, and later founded St. Ignace, Michigan...
) - Mere Marie of the Ursulines (1931) (Marie de l'Incarnation)
- Junipero SerraJunípero SerraBlessed Junípero Serra, O.F.M., , known as Fra Juníper Serra in Catalan, his mother tongue was a Majorcan Franciscan friar who founded the mission chain in Alta California of the Las Californias Province in New Spain—present day California, United States. Fr...
(1933) - Agnes IrwinAgnes IrwinAgnes Irwin was an American educator, best known as the first dean of Radcliffe College from 1894–1909 and as the principal of the West Penn Square Seminary for Young Ladies in Philadelphia, later re-named, in her honor, The Agnes Irwin School, from 1869-1894...
(1934)
External links
- Repplier works in audio at LibriVox
- "Americans and Others" at the Internet Archive
- "Books and Men" at the Internet Archive
- "Compromises" at the Internet Archive
- "Counter-Currents" at the Internet Archive
- "Essays in Idleness" at the Internet Archive
- "Essays in Miniature" at the Internet Archive
- "the Fireside Sphinx" at the Internet Archive
- "a Happy Half-century" at the Internet Archive
- "In the Dozy Hours" at the Internet Archive
- "Points of Friction" at the Internet Archive
- Essays by Agnes Repplier at Quotidiana.org
- Repplier Biography at the University of PennsylvaniaUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...