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George Yellott
b. 1819
A 19th-century Maryland judge who also wrote poems, plays, and fiction, blending a legal career with a lively literary one. His work ranges from satire and verse to the novel The Funny Philosophers, or Wags and Sweethearts.
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The Funny Philosophers, or Wags and Sweethearts. A Novel
by George Yellott
About the author
Born on July 19, 1819, George Yellott was an American lawyer, judge, politician, and author from Maryland. Alongside a public career that included service in the Maryland House of Delegates and later on the Maryland Court of Appeals, he also published literary work in several forms.
Yellott wrote poetry, drama, satire, and fiction. Works associated with him include The Maid of Peru, with Other Poems, The Thompsonian Quack, and The Funny Philosophers, or Wags and Sweethearts. That mix of law and literature gives him an unusual place among 19th-century American writers.
He died on November 13, 1902. Although he is better known in some historical sources for his legal and political work, his surviving books show a writer with a broad interest in both humor and serious verse.