| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Mr. Skylark: John Bennett and the Charleston Renaissance. By Harlan Greene. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001. xviii, 372 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8203-2211-3.)

John Bennett (1865-1956) was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, and as a young man in the Midwest worked chiefly as a journalist and writer of adventure tales for youths. In his thirties, he enrolled in the Art Students' League in New York, and while there he published a perennially popular children's tale, Master Skylark (1897), set in Shakespearean England. Soon thereafter he married into the South Carolina gentry--his wife was a granddaughter of the antebellum writer Louisa McCord--and became active in the cultural life of Charleston. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was the central figure in the flickering literary activity in the Carolina low country that Harlan Greene and others call the Charleston renaissance. . . .

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