Background
Emerson Bennett was born on March 16, 1822 in Monson, Massachussets, United States.
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A group of people fight against the injustices of fate. But is it futile? The hero is a depraved and unruly character, and his story is one of love lost and love regained.
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Leni-Leoti: Adventures in the Far West written by Emerson Bennett, was first published in 1849. Set in 1843, this "dime novel" Western is a sequel to The Prairie Flower,and tells the story of Frank Leighton and his search for his missing friend, Charles Huntly. Frank sets off from Oregon City en route back to Massachusetts by way of New Mexico. Along the way, the mystery of the ancestry of Leni-Leoti (the "prairie flower") is solved.
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Emerson Bennett was born on March 16, 1822 in Monson, Massachussets, United States.
Emerson Bennett was educated in the district schools and Monson Academy (later merged with Wesleyan Academy and became Wilbraham & Monson Academy).
Emerson Bennett published his first book at age twenty. The Brigand, unlike his trademark fiction, was a book of poetry that critics reviewed unfavorably. Bennett’s first success came as a result of a story he wrote a year later. "The Unknown Countess," his first short story, was written for a contest held by a Philadelphia magazine. Bennett didn’t win, but two years later this story mysteriously appeared in the Cincinnati Dollar Weekly Commercial.
Bennett, who had just moved to Cincinnati, went to the editor of the magazine when his story appeared. Upon learning that Bennett had written "The Unknown Countess," which Dollar Weekly readers enjoyed, the magazine’s editor, L.G. Curtis, gave him a contract to write more stories.
After this unusual beginning, Bennett’s literary career took off. Magazines in Cincinnati happily published his stories, poems and articles and Bennett’s writing gained popularity. His first novel-length story was published in installments in 1846, and in book form in 1850. The League of the Miami is the story of Cicely Vandermore and her kidnapping by a bandit. Edward Langley, whom she marries, rescues her.
Moving to Indiana in 1846, Bennett took a job editing the new journal The Casket, furthering his literary career by publishing his own works in each issue. The Casket lasted only a few months, folding in October of that year, but one of Bennett’s successes immediately followed. In 1847, Bennett’s story, The Bandit’s of the Osage: A Western Romance, was serialized in the Dollar Weekly Commercial. The magazine instantly sold out and the story's subsequent publishing in book form sold 20,000 copies.
In the late 1840s, Bennett married a woman and had a son. This prompted him to write a quick succession of novels in order to make money to support his new family, all selling quite well. Mike Fink: A Legend of the Ohio was serialized in The Great West in 1848 and published in book form the same year.
Later works went beyond the formulaic adventure story and reflected the author’s interest in social issues. The novel Ellen Norbury; or. The Adventure of an Orphan, was published in 1855 and deals with injustice and the law. Bennett tackles pre-Civil War themes of patriotism and national unity in the romance The Female Spy; or, Treason in the Camp. A Story of the Revolution and its successor Rosalie Du Pont; or, Treason in the Camp: A Sequel of the Female Spy. Bennett, who believed in protecting the integrity of the Union, also wrote two novels based on William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. Viola; or, Adventures in the Far South-West and Clara Moreland; or, Adventures in the Far South-West were designed to remind his readers that parental feuds can tragically affect their children.
In 1856 Bennett signed an exclusive contract to publish stories in the New York Ledger, which had the largest circulation in the United States at the time. For this publication Bennett wrote the romantic tales The Refugees; An Indian Tale of 1812, Blanche Bertrand; or, Perils of the Border, and Hubert, the Foundling, A Mystery in Paris. His predictable writing style and content, however, was beginning to take its toll as the market for his work gradually began to lessen. Bennett’s answer was to start a journal in which he could publish his own work, along with the writings of others whom he admired. He became the editor of Emerson Bennett’s Dollar Monthly in Philadelphia in 1860. But he used his earlier successes as a fallback, publishing The Moun-tain Lily; or. Adventures in the Wilderness in installments and claiming the story was a follow-up to the best-selling "Prairie Flower." The magazine folded before its first anniversary.
Despite Bennett’s efforts to start another publication, Emerson Bennett’s Weekly; the Great Literary Paper of the Age, in 1879, the author had peaked. This journal lasted only twenty weeks, after which Bennett gradually faded into obscurity.
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1847In 1847 Emerson Bennett married Eliza G. Daly. They had a son, Emerson.