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1817–1878
Best known for writing a full-length 1854 memoir of Universalist minister Joseph Badger, this 19th-century American author worked in a warm, earnest style shaped by religious history and biography.
by E. G. (Elihu Goodwin) Holland
E. G. Holland, identified in library and Project Gutenberg records as E. G. (Elihu Goodwin) Holland, 1817–1878, is a little-documented American writer remembered chiefly for Memoir of Rev. Joseph Badger, a substantial biography first published in 1854.
In the book's preface, he explains that he set out to present Badger's life and beliefs largely in Badger's own words, drawing on journals and family materials. That gives a good sense of Holland as a writer: careful with sources, interested in character, and drawn to the moral and religious energy of his subject rather than to literary showmanship.
Because so little reliable biographical information about Holland is readily available online, his work remains the clearest introduction to him. For listeners interested in early American religious life, denominational history, or the art of the old-fashioned literary memoir, Holland's surviving book offers a thoughtful window into both his subject and his own quietly purposeful voice.