Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Douglas E. Bragdon 1G, Portland, Mc.; Hugh H. Chapman, Jr. 2G, Evansville, Ind.; Thomas D. Durrance 1G, Washington, D. C.; David M. Pratt 2G, Williams town, Mass.; Lloyd G. Carr 1G, Waynesbore, Va.; Kendrick S. Fow 1G, Durham, N. C.; Curtis B. Watson 1G, Haverford, Pa.; and Carl P. Swanson 4G, Pigeon Cove, Mass...
...history or in fiction") wanted him to be an artist. So Seton straddled both careers, became rich & famous. Studying art at London's Royal Academy School, he planned a book on the birds of Canada, years later had his method of classification adopted by master Ornithologist Frank M. Chapman. He illustrated Chapman's and Thomas Nuttail's bird handbooks, began writing and illustrating stories...
...gave "in fiction form the actual facts of an animal's life and modes of thought." Many doubted this, and a great controversy over "the Nature Fakers" began in 1904 when John Burroughs, in The Atlantic Monthly, abused Seton and his disciples as frauds and phony naturalists. Ornithologist Chapman, Novelist Hamlin Garland, Sportsman Teddy Roosevelt defended Seton...
Soon George Eliot began to publish her novels serially-not in the Westminster Review. Spurred on by enlightened self-interest, Chapman soon snooped so successfully that he discovered who George Eliot was. Wrote Lewes to Chapman: ". . . [Mrs. Lewes] authorizes me to state, as distinctly as language can do so, that she is not the author of Adam Bede." Chapman's only reply seems to have been to ask if he might republish some of George Eliot's old articles in the Westminster Review. Lewes said No, wrote in his diary: "Squashed that idea...
Meanwhile, Chapman had decided to become a doctor. In London he treated diabetes, paralysis, epilepsy, cholera with hot & cold water bags. Later he moved to Paris, continued to edit the Westminster Review. In 1894 he died, is buried near George Eliot. He had been molding advanced British opinion for 43 years...