William Ware
{{Short description|American writer and minister (1797–1852)}}
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| birth_place = Hingham, Massachusetts
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| death_place = Cambridge, Massachusetts
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William Ware (August 3, 1797 – February 19, 1852) was an American writer and minister.
Biography
Ware was born in Hingham, Massachusetts on August 3, 1797.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4FxDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA358 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=V |publisher=James T. White & Company |page=358 |year=1907 |access-date=2021-03-31 |via=Google Books}} He graduated from Harvard University in 1816, studied for the Unitarian ministry, and preached mainly in New York, and later in Massachusetts.
He achieved literary recognition chiefly from his authorship of two historical romances, Zenobia, or the Fall of Palmyra (first published as Letters from Palmyra, 1836 and 1837) and Aurelian (first published as Probus, 1838).
He contributed the Life of Nathaniel Bacon to Jared Sparks's The Library of American Biography. His Lectures on the works and genius of Washington Allston appeared in print in 1852. His Writings were published in 1904.
He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on February 19, 1852.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/74834537/news-items/ |title=News Items |newspaper=The Brattleboro Eagle |page=3 |date=1852-02-26 |access-date=2021-03-31 |via=Newspapers.com}}
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External links
- {{Gutenberg author | id=2937}}
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=William Ware}}
- [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:DIV.LIB:div00674 The papers] of William Ware are in the Andover-Harvard Theological Library at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Category:19th-century American novelists
Category:American male novelists
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:American historical novelists
Category:19th-century American male writers
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