George William Bagby
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George William Bagby (13 August 1828-29 November 1883) was an American humorist. He attended Delaware College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied medicine. Afterwards, he became engaged in editorial work, especially on the Southern Literary Messenger, from 1859 to near the close of the War Between the States. Subsequently, he was made State librarian and became widely known as a lecturer and humorist, writing under the name "Mozis Addums." He deserves to be remembered as having kept alive the old school of Southern humor, founded by Longstreet and Hooper. His works were collected in three volumes (Richmond, 1884-86).
Bagby's most popular essay was "The Old Virginia Gentleman" (1877), a paean to antebellum plantation life in Virginia.
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- Trent, Southern Writers (1905)
- American National Biography, vol. 1, pp. 868-869.
This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
