Bronson Howard was a well-known American

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 dramatist and son of Detroit mayor Charles Howard

Charles Howard (Detroit)

-Biography:Charles Howard was born August 7, 1804, in Chenango County, New York. His family moved to Port Jervis, New York; when Charles Howard was an adult he moved to Sackets Harbor, New York and worked as a schooner captain...

. He prepared for college at New Haven, Conn.

New Haven, Connecticut

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, but instead of entering Yale

Yale College

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 he turned to Journalism in New York. From 1867 to 1872 he worked on several newspapers, among them the Evening Mail and the Tribune. As early as 1864 he had written a dramatic piece (Fantine) which was played in Detroit

Detroit, Michigan

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. His first important play was Saratoga, produced by Augustin Daly

Augustin Daly

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 in 1870. It was very successful and became the first of a long series of pieces which gave Mr. Howard a foremost position among American playwright

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s. Among his other best-known plays are:

• The Banker's Daughter (1878)
• Old Love Letters (1878)
• Young Mrs. Winthrop (1882)
• One of our Girls (1885)
• The Henrietta (1887; revived in 1913 as The New Henrietta)
• Shenandoah (1889)
• Aristocracy (1892)

In 1899 he collaborated with Brander Matthews

Brander Matthews

James Brander Matthews , was a U.S. writer and educator. Matthews was the first U.S. professor of dramatic literature.-Biography:...

 in Peter Stuyvesant. He married a sister of Sir Charles Wyndham, the English actor, and he had homes both in New York and London, where some of his plays were no less popular than in America. Bronson Howard was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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