John Neal (August 25, 1793 – June 20, 1876) was an American writer, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist. Considered both eccentric and influential, he delivered speeches and wrote magazine essays, novels, poems, and short stories between the 1810s and 1870s in the United States and Great Britain, championing American literary nationalism and regionalism in their earliest stages. Neal advanced the development of American art, advocated for early feminist causes, advocated the end of slavery and racism, and helped establish the American gymnastics movement.
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25 August 1793 Falmouth (now Portland, Maine), United States
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Died |
20 June 1876 (aged 82) Portland, Maine, United States
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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