American Literature
the Redwoods (1901), and Openings in the Old Trail (1902) were some of his many later works. Though Anna moved to London in 1898 she did not
live with Harte. He had been living, some say as a kept man, for a number of years at the estate of his friend and agent, Madame Hydeline Van de
Velde. Francis Brett Harte died of throat cancer on 5 May 1902 at the Van de Velde estate in Camberley and lies buried in St. Peter's churchyard,
Frimley, England. The gravestone is etched with one of his own poems "Death Shall Reap the Braver Harvest."
William Dean Howells, (genteel realism) a fearless and enthusiastic champion of the new school, felt that he must say what he observed and
knew. Howells viewed realism as "nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material." In defense of the real, as opposed to the
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