Edward P. Vining

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Edward P. Vining (died 1920) was an American writer and railroad executive. [1] He was the author of An Inglorious Columbus (1885), in which he argued that Hui Shen was originally from Afghanistan, traveled to China and Mexico, and created Mexican culture and religion. [2] [3] He also wrote The Mystery of Hamlet. An Attempt to Solve an Old Problem (1881), in which he argued that Shakespeare's Hamlet was actually a woman. [4] His work on Hamlet was translated into German and published in Leipzig in 1883. [1]

When The Mystery of Hamlet was first published, Vining was working as a general freight traffic manager at the Union Pacific Railroad. [1] His other works included a translation of The Necessity for a Classification for Freight. [1]

Although he did not graduate from college, he received an honorary A.M. from Yale in 1886, and an LL.D. from William Jewell College in 1908. [1]

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  2. Regal, Brian (2022). "The Asia and Africa Theories". The Battle Over America's Origin Story. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 167–195. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-99538-6_8. ISBN   9783030995386.
  3. "Review: An Inglorious Columbus". The American Naturalist. 19 (10). October 1885. JSTOR   2450279.
  4. Seidl, Monica (2002). "Room for Asta: Gender Roles and Melodrama in Asta Nielsen's Filmic Version of "Hamlet" (1920)". Literature/Film Quarterly. 30 (3): 20–216. JSTOR   45116758.