Elements of Bile: Placing Daniel Ottolengui (1836-1918) in the Heritage of Hate

Just east of Broadway, in 1846, Isaac D. Baker and Charles Scribner opened their publishing house on Nassau Street near Ann Street in lower Manhattan. By the time of the Civil War, Baker and Scribner had cemented a reputation for thoughtful and elevating texts. In 1867, the firm, now Charles Scribner and Co., having moved up to 654 Broadway and released a miscellany of Christian meditations, poetry by Robert Burns, and a translation of the Iliad, had picked up Henry Ward Beecher’s Norwood, or Village Life in New England. This lone novel by Beecher—orator, abolitionist, and minister of Brooklyn’s Plymouth Church—had run as a serial in Robert Bonner’s paper, the New York Ledger, starting in early May.

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