Washington Irving

Died in 1859

Washington Irving was born in New York in 1783. He studied law without conviction and in 1809 published a burlesque history of his city. Having left for England in 1815 on his brothers' business, he remained in Europe for seventeen years, settled in Madrid in 1826, where he frequented the United States legation and worked in the archives, then returned to his native city in 1832. He returned to Spain as United States minister from 1842 to 1846. He died in 1859 in Tarrytown, in the state of New York.

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Short storiesThe Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.Washington Irving · 1819LiteraturePublic domain