The larger cities having been accounted for, stray lots of twenty and thirty and forty were dropped here and there across the continent as a sand artist fills in his nearly completed picture by fine driftings from his hand.
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I have chosen Driftwood and Driftings as being a more euphoneous combination than the other names would have been. Doubtless her work would have been more finished had she lived to revise it; but to me it is sacred as it is—I have made few changes.'''' In 1909, Bedford published a poetical romance called Forrest Dayre.
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I have also gathered together the short stories and other literary remains of my daughter, Mrs. May Bedford-Eagan, and included them in this work. Had not death intervened, she intended publishing these under the title here used—Driftings. In that event, mine would have been called Miscellaneous Pencilings—a title under which I have contributed much to the press.
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From an early age, Campbell exhibited a talent for writing poetry and stories. He wrote poetry and stories throughout his life. His first book, Driftings and Gleanings, a volume of poetry and essays in standard American English, was published in 1887. Following his resignation from the West Virginia Colored Institute, Campbell relocated to Chicago in 1895, where he became a staff writer for the Chicago Times-Herald.
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2017: "Voices in Kiev" multi-media exhibition, Shevchenko National Museum, Kiev, Ukraine. 2018: "Guangzhou Driftings" multi-media exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China. This project will continue with new themes in Hong Kong and Beijing in 2020. Catherine Gfeller's exhibition at Kunstmuseum Luzern, KKL, Lucerne, 2011, (Andri Stadler) Catherine Gfeller has exhibited extensively in Switzerland, France, Italy, England, Holland, Germany, Belgium, South America, the United States, Canada, South Africa, Ukraine and China.
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Front cover of Driftings and Gleanings (1887) From an early age, Campbell exhibited a talent for writing poetry and stories. Early in his writing career, he wrote simple poems in the African-American vernacular dialect, some of which were published in newspapers and magazines. One of his earlier poems, "The Pariah's Love", was written in the style of Thomas Moore's Lalla-Rookh. Campbell continued to write poetry and stories at his leisure throughout his careers as a schoolteacher and school administrator.
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" Deservedly popular, it won for her sincere admirers wherever it was read. In 1893, she published Driftwood and Driftings. In its preface, she stated:— "It is said that prefaces are out of date; nevertheless, I am sufficiently old-fashioned to believe that a word of explanation is often necessary to bring the reader and writer into sympathy with each other. Heretofore, I have confined my publications to poetry; but in this miscellaneous collection I have interspersed prose with recently written poems, together with others not embraced in the former volumes.
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