id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5544 Ida Tarbell - Wikipedia .html text/html 13441 1521 75 Tarbell returned from Paris in the summer of 1894, [53] and, after a visit with family in Titusville, moved to New York City.[56] In June of that year, Samuel McClure contacted her in order to commission a biographical series on Napoleon Bonaparte.[32][4] McClure had heard that the Century Magazine, McClure's rival, was working on a series of articles about Bonaparte.[57] Tarbell stayed at Twin Oaks in Washington, D.C., the home of Gardiner Green Hubbard, while working on the series.[10][56] Tarbell made use of Hubbard's extensive collection of Napoleon material and memorabilia as well as resources at the Library of Congress and the U.S. State Department.[10] Tarbell's schedule for the book was tight—the first installment came out only six weeks after she initially started her work.[10] Tarbell called this "biography on a gallop."[58][59] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5544.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5544.txt