1890s

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Church, Francis. "Is There a Santa Claus?" The New York Sun, 21 Sept. 1897.

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Church, Francis. Quoted in The Christmas Chronicles, written by Jeff Guinn. Penguin, 2008.

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 7.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 7.

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Twain, Mark. Note to Frank Marshall White. 31 May 1897.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews, edited by Gary Scharnhorst. University Alabama Press, 2006, ch. 6.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Der Antichrist [The Antichrist]. 1895, no. 57.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. "The Anti-Christ." The Twilight of the Idols and Anti-Christ, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 1990, no. 57.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The White Man's Burden." The Times, 4 Feb. 1899, I. 1.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The White Man's Burden." Rudyard Kipling: Stories and Poems, edited by Daniel Karlin. Oxford University Press, 2015, I. 1.

I know why the caged bird sings!

Paul Laurence Dunbar

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Dunbar, Paul Lawrence. "Sympathy." Lyrics of the Hearthside. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1899, st. 3.

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Dunbar, Paul Lawrence. "Sympathy." Paul Lawrence Dunbar: Selected Poems. Dover Publications, 1997, st. 3.

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Renard, Jules. Journal entry. Dec. 1896.

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Renard, Jules. The Journal of Jules Renard, edited and translated by Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget. Tin House Books, 2017.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Der Antichrist [The Antichrist]. 1895, no. 39.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. "The Anti-Christ." The Twilight of the Idols and Anti-Christ, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 1990, no. 39.

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Tolstoy, Leo. What is Art? London: The Brotherhood Publishing Company, 1898.

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Tolstoy, Leo. What Is Art? Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Penguin Classics, 1996.

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Chekhov, Anton. Dyadya Vanya. 1897, act 4.

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Chekhov, Anton. "Uncle Vanya." Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull' Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard, translated by Peter Carson. Penguin Classics, 2002, act 4.

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Chekhov, Anton. Letter to Alexi Peshkov (Maxim Gorky). 3 Jan. 1899.

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Chekhov, Anton. "To Alexi Peshkov (Gorky), 3 January 1899, Yalta." A Life in Letters, translated by Rosamund Bartlett and Anthony Phillips. Penguin Classics, 2004.

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Wilde, Oscar. Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas. Jan.-Mar. 1897.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty." The Strand Magazine. London, 1893.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Naval Treaty." The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2023.

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Freud, Sigmund. Die Traumdeutung [The Interpretation of Dreams]. Leipzig und Wien: Franz Deuticke, 1900, ch. 7, sect. E.

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Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams, translated and edited by James Strachey. Basic Books, 2010, ch. 7, sect. E.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1891, ch. 20.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 20.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Der Antichrist [The Antichrist]. 1895, no. 48.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. "The Anti-Christ." The Twilight of the Idols and Anti-Christ, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 1990, no. 48.

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Wilde, Oscar. Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas. Jan.-Mar. 1897.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 3.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 4.

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Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman. 1892, St James's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

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Wilde, Oscar. "Lady Windermere's Fan." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 3.