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Louis B. Wright

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in Greenwood County, South Carolina, The United States

March 01, 1899

Died

December 26, 1984

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Louis Booker Wright was an American author, educator and librarian. Wright was the director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, the author of numerous books about the American colonial period, and in 1928 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship.

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	The Thirteen Colonies 4.04 avg rating — 296 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shakespeare's England 3.83 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 1964 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hamlet 4.20 avg rating — 83 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cultural Life of the American Colonies 3.76 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1957 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everyday Life in Colonial America 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1966 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gold, Glory and the Gospel 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1970 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Heritage History of the Thirteen Colonies 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The First Gentlemen of Virginia: Intellectual Qualities of the Early Colonial Ruling Class 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1940 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Folger Guide to Shakespeare 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1969 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ο Σαίξπηρ και η εποχή του by Louis B. Wright, Αλέξανδρος Κοτζιάς (Translator) 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1975 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Nobody in Colonial America, to be sure, believed that society owed every child the ultimate in education, but intelligence, industry, and thrift combined with ambition got many a poor man's son into the colonial colleges.”
― Louis B. Wright

tags: colonial-america, education, industry, intelligence, thrift

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“When colonists came to grips with their destiny, it was because they had realized liberty and responsibility go together.”
― Louis B. Wright, The Thirteen Colonies

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