Tag: Moncure Conway
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Eutsey’s Trouble Begins Lecture Now Available
Eutsey discusses religious liberalism’s strong, but often times neglected, influence on Twain and his writings
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Remembering Reverend Conway, Mark Twain’s Second-Favorite Clergyman
While Mark Twain’s close bond with Congregationalist minister Joseph Twichell is well known among Twainians, the friendship he shared with another man of the cloth, the Rev. Moncure Conway, often receives little more than passing reference. We read mostly of Conway’s role as Twain’s literary representative in England or of his glowing review of The…