Mitchell, DONALD GRANT

Mitchell, DONALD GRANT, an American author, many of whose works have appeared under the pen-name of 'Ik Marvel,' was born in Norwich, Connecticut, 12th April 1822, was in 1853 appointed consul at Venice, in 1868-69 editor of the Atlantic Monthly, but is better known as the proprietor of a farm—Edgewood—near New Haven, about which he has written several delightful books. Among his other works are Reveries of a Bachelor and Dream Life (1850-51; new eds. 1889); a novel, Dr Johns (1866); and English Lands, Letters, and Kings, from Celt to Tudor (1889).