He escaped a college education, which his father required of his older sons, but read intermittently at the law, notably in the office of Josiah Ogden Hoffman, with whose pretty daughter Matilda he early fell in love. He wrote a series of whimsically satirical essays over the signature of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. He made several trips up the Hudson, another into Canada for his health, and took an extended tour of Europe in — On his return he passed the bar examination late in and soon set up as a lawyer.
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His father was a merchant of Scottish background and stern disposition. His mother, on the other hand, the granddaughter of an English curate, was gentle and kind. The youngest of eleven children, Irving was frail as a child and had an undistinguished record as a student, being somewhat lazy as well as mischievous.
Irving began apprentice law studies in with Josiah Ogden Hoffmann. Between andIrving traveled widely in England and throughout Europe, during which time he honed his powers of observation and strengthened his health.
When he returned to the United States, he was admitted to law practice. His real interest and talent, however, lay in his writing. Inalong with his brother William and James Kirke Paulding, Irving helped establish another periodical, Salmagundi, a satiric and lively send-up of whatever the three young men thought needed parodying.
In May,Irving traveled to Liverpool, England, on behalf of the hardware business of which he was a partner with his brothers Peter and William. It was here that he discovered what poor financial condition the business was in and here also that he faced with his brothers the bankruptcy courts.
Thus, it was not a burning love of literature that made Irving begin his writing career in earnest, but rather his desperate need to make a living. Irving stayed in Europe for the next seventeen years, finally returning to the United States inbut only after he had become the famous author of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Sending them to his brother Ebenezer in the United States for publication, Irving wrote, characteristically, that his greatest desire was to make himself worthy of the goodwill of his countrymen.
He did much toward achieving his goal by including in this first number perhaps the most memorable mythic figure in all of American literature, Rip Van Winkle. In the installments that followed, Irving almost single-handedly established the beginning of American literature.
No American work of literature, and few works from any country, received the amount of praise heaped upon The Sketch Book. It was truly the first international literary sensation to come from the New World.
After several months in Paris, Irving returned to England to publish Bracebridge Hallwhich focused on the customs of England. Then he was off again, traveling through Europe until settling in Dresden for six months, after which he lived in Paris from August,until May, When he returned to London, he published the appropriately titled Tales of a Traveller This work was not well received by the critics, however, and caused Irving his first professional disappointment.
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