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George William Curtis (February 24, 1824 – August 31, 1892) was an American writer, reformer, public speaker, and political activist. He was an abolitionist and supporter of civil rights for African Americans and Native Americans. He also advocated women's suffrage, civil service reform, and public education. [citation needed]
George William Curtis (born Feb. 24, 1824, Providence, R.I., U.S.—died Aug. 31, 1892, Staten Island, N.Y.) was a U.S. author, editor, and leader in civil service reform.
18 de mar. de 2016 · Resumen de la biografía de Curtis, George William: (1824-92). Autor norteamericano, nacido en Providence (Rhode Island) y educado en Brook Farm, donde trabó contacto con el trascendentalismo. Viajó por Europa y el Cercano Oriente (1846) como correspon.
American writer, orator, and, especially, civil service reformer, George William Curtis (1824-1892) was a patrician whose ideals and causes are blurred in historical retrospect by a personal elitism that bordered on priggishness and was out of step even in his own time.
George William Curtis (24 February 1824 – 31 August 1892) Abolitionist, writer, editor, orator. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, and educated in Jamaica Plain, Mass. before moving to New York, George William Curtis and his older brother Burrill moved to Brook Farm in 1842 for academic purposes.
3 de feb. de 2015 · George William Curtis was a journalist and editor. He was born on February 24, 1824 in Providence, RI, attended private school in New York, and traveled throughout Europe, Egypt, and Syria in the 1840s. Upon his return to the US, he wrote for and helped George Palmer Putnam found Putman’s Magazine.
In 1846 George William Curtis went abroad to remain for four years, traveling and studying in a leisurely, yet serious, manner through Europe, Egypt, and Syria. The results of this tour to become immediately apparent were his books, Nile Notes of a Howadji (1851) and The Howadji in Syria (1852), works giving the spirit of the scenes visited rather
