American Literature
womanising which would haunt him for years to come. Harte had mastered the genre of gold rush fiction, capturing the corruption and greed in
nostalgic prose, with vivid descriptions of the myriad characters he had known and the wild new frontier lands he had traversed. However he would
never quite maintain the impetus of his first published successes. His financial stresses took a turn for the better when in 1878 he was
recommended and duly appointed to the United States Consul, first in Crefeld, Germany, then Glasgow, Scotland until 1885. The strain was still
there however as it was not lucrative enough to support Anna and the children joining him in Europe. After his service he spent the majority of his
latter days in London. He mostly wrote in the same format as his early days but even when testing new material his audience was tiring of his
romanticising
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