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Hyman, Martin D. "'Where the Drinkers & Laughers Meet': Pfaff's: Whitman's Literary Lair." Seaport. 26(1991): 56-61.
Type: journal ; Genre: journalism
People Mentioned in this Work
- Booth, Edwin [pages: 61]
- Identified as one of Pfaff's "guests" and referred to as one of the "luminaries of the stage" (61).
- Clapp, Henry Jr. [pages: 58-61]
- Clare, Ada [pages: 58]
- Greeley, Horace [pages: 61]
- Identified as one of Pfaff's "guests" (61).
- Howells, William Dean [pages: 58,59]
- Identified as a contributor to The Saturday Press.
- Jefferson, Joseph [pages: 61]
- Identified as one of Pfaff's "guests" and referred to as one of the "luminaries of the stage" (61).
- Menken, Adah Isaacs [pages: 58-61]
- Newell, Robert Henry [pages: 59]
- Hyman quotes Kerr: "the Mercury's editor, Robert Henry Newell, detested Whitman's poetry, but loved [Adah] Menken, and she was able to beguile the editor into running her tribute" (59).
- O'Brien, Fitz-James [pages: 58]
- Pfaff, Charles Ignatius [pages: 57,59-61]
- Swinton, John [pages: 59]
- John is identified as a Pfaff's regular (59).
- Twain, Mark [pages: 58]
- Clemens is identified as a contributor to The Saturday Press.
- Ward, Artemus [pages: 58]
- Whitman, Walt [pages: 58-61]
- Winter, William [pages: 61]
