Lowell, James Russell. The Biglow Papers.

The book is a social satire, written in New England dialect, whose characters include Hosea Biglow, and Birdofredum Savin, and Parson Wilbur. A popular and financial success, according to Ferris Greenslet, it portrays the region’s “common sense and canniness, its poetry and pedantry, its idealism, all minted into something as race and of the soil as a pine-tree shilling.” A second is published in 1867. (1848)