Latitude 19°

Crowninshield, Schuyler, Mrs., -1913Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 743K words
Chapters: 75

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Latitude 19° by Mrs. Schuyler CrowninshieldAuthor: Crowninshield, Schuyler, Mrs., -1913,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: May 28, 2011

Editor's review

Latitude 19° is a novel by Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield (d. 1913), available in the public-domain ebook collection of Project Gutenberg and classified under American and Canadian literature. As part of late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century American popular fiction, it offers a useful vantage point on the narrative tastes and thematic choices of women writers of the period: the geographical coordinate in the title hints at an exotic setting and travel elements, and readers will encounter the romantic-adventure style popular at the time. The Gutenberg edition is the original English text, freely available, so researchers and literary enthusiasts can consult the source at any time. For readers interested in marginal works of American literary history, or in the character of popular fiction around the turn of the twentieth century, this is a low-cost, immediately accessible primary text; those seeking carefully edited annotations or in-depth introductions will need to supplement it with secondary scholarship. Reading it alongside the periodical serialization and women's writing of the era deepens appreciation of its value as a historical source.

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What language is this book in, and is there a Chinese edition?

According to Project Gutenberg, the book is the original English text, classified under American and Canadian literature. The materials do not mention a Chinese translation; readers can begin with the English original or look for a translation from another publisher.

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It can serve as a primary text for studying American popular fiction and women's writing from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century, but Gutenberg editions generally lack scholarly annotations and introductions, so formal research will also require literary histories and secondary literature.

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The materials give only the title and literary classification and do not explain the title's specific meaning. Literally, latitude 19° suggests a tropical or exotic geographical setting; readers can watch for narrative locations and travel elements in the text and judge its symbolic role for themselves.

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About the author

Crowninshield, Schuyler, Mrs., -1913 Author · American

Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield (died 1913) was an American author whose biographical details are limited in publicly available sources; her exact birth and death years and educational background are largely unrecorded. Two of her works are held in this collection, Latitude 19° and San Isidro. Judging by their titles, they appear to concern a particular latitude and a place name, and may involve travel writing or descriptions of local scenery and life. Owing to the scarcity of material, it is difficult to describe her writing style or literary influence in detail; she can only be confirmed as the author of these two works in bibliographic records. Overall, she belongs among early American writers with few works and sparse biographical records, and her research value lies mainly in the regional focus and period character reflected in the works themselves.