(In the nineteenth century typesetting, or preparing text for print, was done with small pieces of metal that had been formed into the shapes of letters, punctuation marks, and spaces. According to his memoirs, Howells learned to set newspaper type before he could read. When William Dean was three, the family moved to Hamilton, Ohio, where his father was the editor of a weekly journal. His father, William Cooper Howells, was a printer for several small Ohio newspapers. Howells was born in Martin's Ferry, Ohio, and was the second child in a family of eight. The novel presents Howells's vision of a more democratic and tolerant, if less cultured, American society of the future and introduced business and industry as an essential subject in fiction writing during the industrial age. His most famous book, The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885), captured the changes taking place in the social world of Boston in the 1880s, when the "new rich"-people from humble backgrounds who had made a fortune in the industrial era-were entering the once-exclusive circles of the city's old ruling class of wealthy and elite. William Dean Howells (1837–1920) was a journalist, a well-known literary critic, and a popular writer of novels, poetry, travel essays, plays, and short stories.
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