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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Melville, Herman

Melville, Herman
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: MacPhee, Laurence
Affiliation: Assistant Professor Of English, Seton Hall University

Introduction

Melville's Life.

Herman Melville was born in New York City on August 1, 1819, to Allan
Melvill (as his father spelled his name) and Maria Gansevoort Melvill. Both
sides of the family were quite well off, and could even be called
"aristocratic" in a sense; his father came from a line of successful
merchants, and his mother from Hudson Valley landholders. His childhood was a
secure and comfortable one, but his fortunes changed in 1830, when his ...

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