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Our American Cousin
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An English comedy by Tom Taylor about an American who travels to England to meet his aristocratic relatives and claim an inheritance. It will interest readers of classic drama and those curious about the play performed when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865.
Tom Taylor
Tom Taylor was an English dramatist, critic, biographer, public servant, and editor of Punch magazine. Taylor had a brief academic career, holding the professorship of English literature and language at University College, London in the 1840s, after which he practised law and became a civil servant. At the same time he became a journalist, most prominently as a contributor to, and eventually editor of, Punch, a humour magazine.
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