- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- William Tappan Thompson (1812-1882)
- Creator:
- Shippey, Herbert
- Date of Original:
- 2002-07-18
- Subject:
- Authors, American--Georgia--Savannah
Newspaper editors--Georgia--Savannah
Editors--Georgia--Savannah
Humorists, American--Georgia--Savannah - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Encyclopedia article about William Tappan Thompson. During the middle of the nineteenth century, William Tappan Thompson gained national popularity as a writer of humorous stories. He was best known for creating the fictional character Major Joseph Jones, a down-to-earth Georgia planter who wrote dialect letters about his courtship, rural life, and travels. These letters, originally appearing in periodicals that Thompson edited, were published in Major Jones's Courtship and Major Jones's Sketches of Travel. Thompson was one of a group of nineteenth-century southern writers whose humorous and realistic tales about the backwoods produced a literature that was distinctively American.
- Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/william-tappan-thompson-1812-1882/
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: "William Tappan Thompson (1812-1882)," New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved [date]: http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org.
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
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