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Melville's last, grave joke?(Herman Melville)

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From: Melville Society Extracts
Date: 20020201
Author:Logan, Judy

When Herman Melville died in 1891, he was buffed in a plot in Woodlawn Cemetery in New York, next to the spot where his son Malcolm had been buffed following his suicide in 1867 at the age of 18. Melville's wife, Elizabeth Shaw Melville, joined them upon her death in 1906. But Melville's grave has left afficionados puzzled at least since the Melville revival of the 20s and 30s. Why did the family choose Woodlawn in the Bronx when they lived in Manhattan? Why the oddity of Melville's marker itself?. The former query seems to have a dear, logical explanation, given a bit of history; ...

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