biography
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| lived:
| (1796–1867)
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| biography:
| Banker and writer, born in Newton, Massachusetts, USA. The son of the influential architect Charles Bulfinch, he tried his hand at various businesses, then worked in a bank (1837–67). This job allowed him much spare time which he spent studying natural history and literature, and he began to write books drawing on his extensive reading, such as Hebrew Lyrical History (1853), The Age of Chivalry (1858), and Shakespeare Adapted for Reading Classes (1865). One particular title, The Age of Fable (1855), gained wide fame. Known as ‘Bulfinch's Mythology’, it introduced Greek and Roman mythology to generations of Americans who did not read Greek or Latin. |
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