American Literature
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. Drift from Two Shores (1878), Poetical Works (1880), In the Carquinez Woods (1883), Maruja (1885), The Queen of the Pirate Isle
(1886), The Crusade of the Excelsior (1887), and The Argonauts of North Liberty (1888) were many of his prolific titles to follow. A Ward of the
Golden Gate (1890), A Sappho of Green Springs (1891), Sally Dows (1893), A Protégée of Jack Hamlin's (1894), Poetical Works of Bret Harte
(1896), The Three Partners (1897), Stories in Light and Shadow (1898), The Complete Poetical Works (1899), From Sand Hill to Pine (1900), Under