![]() ![]() ![]() Lalor describes him as a “tangential figure” to the bohemian scene at Pfaff’s (364), which is supported by Rawson’s characterization of him as “only an occasional comet in the brilliant sky of the Pfaffian zodiac” (n.p.). ![]() While multiple sources place Gardette at Pfaff’s, there is some dispute over his level of involvement there. Winter lists Gardette amongst "names that shine, with more or less lustre, in the scroll of American poets.” (292) While most of his works are forgotten today, he was evidently well regarded during his time. ![]() Gardette was considered a young man of the New York Press (“The Young Men” 4), and was among the first to contribute to Atlantic Monthly (“Literary Matters”). Like some of his compatriots at Pfaff’s, including Aldrich, Nast, Shanly, and Arnold, Gardette tried his hand at writing for children, publishing the didactic Johnnie Dodge, or, The Freaks and Fortunes of an Idle Boy in 1868. His work includes fiction, poetry, and essays. Soon moving from medicine to journalism, he published in the Evening Journal and Record of Philadelphia, as well as the Evening Post of New York. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1851 (Rawson). Charles Desmarais Gardette was born in Philadelphia in 1830 to an aristocratic family and received his M.D. ![]()
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