George Rice Carpenter

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George Rice Carpenter (October 25, 1863 - April 8, 1909) was a noted educator and scholar. He was a descendant of the Rehoboth Carpenter Family of Massachusetts. His father was Charles Carrol Carpenter (b. 1836) and mother was Feronia N. Rice (b. 1862). His father was a Congregational minister who left an account of the final days of the Civil War and was an eyewitness of Abraham Lincoln's entry into Petersburg, Virginia. George Rice Carpenter was born on the Labrador Coast where his parents were missionaries. After attending Phillips Academy, Andover, Carpenter entered Harvard where he graduated in 1886. He became a Harvard instructor in 1888 and assistant professor at MIT until 1893. Carpenter then became a professor and chairman of English rhetoric at Columbia University in New York where he remained for the duration of his life.　A library at Columbia is jointly named in his honor. Carpenter's publications were copious. A large number of textbooks were from his hand. Carpenter produced works on Longfellow (1901), Whittier (1903), Whitman (1909), among others. His wife was a Mary Seymour of New York. Carpenter's daughter Margaret (b. 1893) was herself the author of the novel Experiment Perilous.

[edit] Books

  • Carpenter, Amos B. A Genealogical History of the Rehoboth Branch of the Carpenter Family in America, Amherst Massachusetts, 1898.
  • Carpenter, George Rice. American Prose: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers and a General Introduction, Macmillan, 1898.
  • Brewster, William Tenney and Carpenter, George Rice. Studies in Structure and Style, Macmillan, 1898.
  • Carpenter, George Rice. Walt Whitman, Macmillan, 1909.
  • Carpenter, George Rice. John Greenleaf Whittier, Houghton, Mifflin nad Co., 1909.
  • Carpenter, George Rice. The Episode of the Donna Pietosa, 1889.
  • Carpenter, George Rice , Baker, Franklin J, Scott, Fred N. The Teaching of English in the Elementary and the Secondary School, Longmans, Green & Co. 1903.
  • Carpenter, George Rice, Baker, Franklin Thomas, Owens Jennie Freeborn. Language Reader, Macmillan, 1909.


[edit] Articles

  • Brewster, William T. Columbia University Quarterly, June 1909.
  • Fletcher, Jefferson B. Annual Report of the Dante Society, 1909, pp. 7-9.
  • Steeves, R. Columbia University Quarterly (extensive bibliography), sept. 1909.