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Why Harpers "prevented" publication of The Isle of the Cross--one possible explanation.

Publication: Melville Society Extracts
Publication Date: 01-FEB-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Why Harpers "prevented" publication of The Isle of the Cross--one possible explanation.(Note)(Critical Essay)

Article Excerpt
The second volume of Hershel Parker's monumental biography of Herman Melville includes much information on Melville's "lost" work, The Isle of the Cross. On a visit to Nantucket in 1852, Melville was intrigued by a story he heard there. The storyteller was John H. Clifford, "currently the attorney general [of Massachusetts] and soon to be governor." (1)

Clifford's yarn concerned a Nantucket woman named Agatha Hatch, who had cared for a ship-wrecked sailor named Robertson. They married, and Agatha conceived a child by him;...

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