Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny is an 1861 novel by American author and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Later dubbed the first of his "medicated novels", it tells the story of a young woman whose mother was bitten by a rattlesnake while pregnant, which imbued the child with some characteristics of the reptile. Bernard Langdon, who takes a teaching job at Elsie's school, becomes curious about her, even as he slightly fears her.
The novel explores themes of original sin and human nature. Its title character may have been inspired by a woman that Oliver Wendell Holmes knew while living in western Massachusetts. Holmes began serializing the novel, his first, in 1859. Along with two other books, Holmes termed Elsie Venner one of his "medicated novels" because of his attempts to "diagnose" medical problems inherent in human nature.
ElsieVenner: A Romance of Destiny is an 1861 novel by American author and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Later dubbed the first of his "medicated...
It was part of a series of articles that eventually became his novel ElsieVenner, and the first chapter of the novel was about the Brahmin caste. "A Brief...
Cup", c. 1683, Art Institute of Chicago; Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1859). ElsieVenner. Retrieved 30 December 2018. Hughes, 187, 144 Hughes, 144-146 Hughes...
whose novel ElsieVenner (1861) was associated in Berkshire legend with Sarah Morewood. In Pittsfield, Sarah Morewood said, ElsieVenner "created a storm...
JSTOR 2710847. Holmes entitled the first chapter of his 1861 novel ElsieVenner "The Brahmin caste of New England"; he had long been writing about the...
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early 20th century Day-dreams, painting, by 1874 Dr. O.W. Holmes' "ElsieVenner", painting Easter Morn, oil painting First Thanksgiving at Plymouth (study)...
Jane Holmes (1825–1907), Lena Rivers Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894), ElsieVenner A. M. Homes (born 1961), The End of Alice Ann Hood (born 1956), Somewhere...
1895 he contributed a frontispiece in photogravure from a drawing, for ElsieVenner: a romance of destiny by Oliver Wendell Holmes. In 1896, Alexandre Dumas'...
and television in the early 1950s. The Man Who Tried to Forget (1913) ElsieVenner (1914) The Getaway (1914) The City (1914) Man to Man (1914) The Best...
the youngest of four sons of farmer William Jesse Knotts and his wife Elsie Luzetta Knotts (née Moore), who were married in Spraggs, Pennsylvania. His...
William Arthur Lewis 1915–1991 Economist $100 Reverse 1993 Kenneth Dwight Venner c. 1946–2016 Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (1989–2015)...
58–39%. In 1984, Kaptur faced a strong challenge from Republican Frank Venner, longtime anchorman and weatherman at WTVG, but defeated him 55–44%, even...
their politicians do." Endresen 2016, p. 208. Schwartz 2014, pp. 111–112. Venner 2016, p. 75. Lesser et al. 2001, p. 51. Judah 2008, p. 119. "Important agreements...
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For services Sport and to Charity in Warrington, Cheshire. Philip Anthony Venner Crawford, For services to Farming and to the Rural Community in the South...
Robert Astles, Corps of Royal Engineers. No. 2080932 Staff-Sergeant Tom Venners Barlow, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Territorial Army. No. 22367827 Corporal...
Commissioner of Lands & Surveys, British Solomon Islands Protectorate. Noel Edgar Venner, Secretary of Finance, St. Lucia. Woo Pak-foo, MB, ChB. For public services...
Richard Augier. For services to regional education. Kenneth Dwight Vincent Venner. For public service in the area of finance. Hollis Duncan Davidson Bristol...
and charity. Maurice Vaughan. For services to Cricket in Etwall. Jonathan Venner, Organist and Choirmaster, Church of St Edward the Confessor, Romford. For...
the community. Michael Dao. For public service. Civil Division Noel Edgar Venner, OBE. For public service. Civil Division Richard Walter Joachim. For public...
Holmes, Sister, T.F.N.S. Ethel Julia Marion Keene, Q.A.I.M.N.S. Estelle Venner Keogh, Staff Nurse, Q.A.I.M.N.S.R., Australia Mary Walker Langlands, Sister...
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