Edgar Fawcett
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| Born | May 26, 1847 New York City |
| Died | May 2, 1904 (aged 56) London |
| Occupation | American writer |
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Edgar Fawcett (May 26, 1847 – May 2, 1904) was an American novelist and poet.[1]
Biography[edit]
Early life and education[edit]
Fawcett was born in New York City on May 26, 1847, and spent much of his life there.[2] Educated at Columbia College, he obtained the A.B. there in 1867 and his M.A. three years later. At Columbia, he was a member of the Fraternity of Delta Phi[3] and the Philolexian Society.[4]
Career[edit]
Although successful in his time, his works are mostly forgotten today.[citation needed]
His best known novels, such as Purple and Fine Linen (1873)[1] and New York (1898),[citation needed] were satirical studies of New York high society. Fawcett also wrote a parody of the King Arthur legends entitled The New King Arthur: An Opera Without Music (1885),[citation needed] as well as numerous works for children, such as Short Poems for Short People (1872).[citation needed]
In 1877, his poem "Box" appeared in the Sacramento Daily Union having been reprinted from The Atlantic, where it would appear in the September issue.[5] His volumes of verse included Song and Story (1884)[citation needed] and Songs of Doubt and Dream (1891). His verse was frequently anthologized.[citation needed] "The Man from Mars" was published in the June 1892 issue of Short Stories: A Magazine of Select Fiction.[6]
Stanley R. Harrison's study, entitled Edgar Fawcett, was published in 1972.[7] It lists many unpublished manuscripts sent in for copyright with such titles as "The Man from Mars" and "The Destruction of the Moon," but no trace of most of these beyond the listing seems to exist.[citation needed]
Later life, and death[edit]
Fawcett spent many of the last years of his life in London,[1] where he died on May 2, 1904.[8]
Bibliography[edit]
- Asses' Ears (1871)
- Short Poems for Short People (1871)
- Purple and Fine Linen (1873)
- Ellen Story (1876)
- Fantasy and Passion (1878)
- A False Friend (1880)
- Our First Families (1880)
- A Hopeless Case (1880)
- Sixes and Sevens (1881)
- Americans Abroad (1881)
- A Gentleman of Leisure (1881)
- An Ambitious Woman (1883)
- Adventures of a Widow (1884)
- Tinkling Cymbals (1884)
- Rutherford (1884)
- Song and Story (1884)
- The Adventures of a Widow (1884)
- The Buntling Ball (1884)
- Social Silhouettes (1885)
- The New King Arthur (1885)
- Romance and Revery (1886)
- The House at High Bridge (1886)
- The Earl (1887)
- The House at High Bridge (1887)
- The Confessions of Claud (1887)
- Olivia Delaplaine (1887)
- Divided Lives (1888)
- Douglas Duane (1888)
- A Man's Will (1888)
- Miriam Balestier (1888)
- A Demoralizing Marriage (1889)
- The Evil That Men Do (1889)
- Solarion (1889)
- Agnosticism and Other Essays (1889)
- Blooms and Brambles (1889)
- A Daughter of Silence (1890)
- Fabian Dimitry (1890)
- How a Husband Forgave (1890)
- A New York Family (1891)
- A Romance of Two Brothers
- Songs of Doubt and Dream (1891)
- Women Must Weep (1891)
- The Adopted Daughter (1892)
- American Push (1892)
- An Heir to Millions (1892)
- Loaded Dice (1893)
- The New Nero (1893)
- Hartmann the Anarchist (1893)
- Her Fair Fame (1894)
- A Martyr of Destiny (1894)
- A Mild Barbarian (1894)
- Outrageous Fortune (1894)
- The Ghost of Guy Thyrle (1895)
- Life's Fitful Fever (1896)
- A Romance of Old New York (1897)
- Two Daughters of One Race (1897)
- New York (1898)
- The Vulgarians (1903)
- Voices and Visions (1903)
- Later Verses (1903)
- An Innocent Anglomaniac (1904)
- The Pride of Intellect (1904)
- "Actaeon" (1893) (Located on page 422 in The Cosmopolitan, An-Illustrated Monthly Magazine; August 1893) (Volume XV. Number 4)
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Fawcett, Edgar (1847-1904) | The Vault at Pfaff's". pfaffs.web.lehigh.edu. Retrieved March 16, 2022.
- ^ Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard, eds. (1906). The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Vol. IV. Boston: American Biographical Society. Retrieved March 19, 2022 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ William Simpson Sloan (1881). The Undergraduate Record. Gillis brothers.
- ^ Sloan, W.S. (1881). The Undergraduate Record: Columbia College. A Book of Statistical Information. Gillis Bros. pp. 1–29. Retrieved June 12, 2015.
- ^ Fawcellt, Edgar (August 25, 1877). "Box". Sacramento Daily Union. Vol. 3, no. 154. p. 6.
- ^ Fawcett, Edgar (June 1892). "The Man from Mars". Short Stories: A Magazine of Selection Fiction.
- ^ Harrison, Stanley R. (1972). Edgar Fawcett. Gale Group.
- ^ Notice de personne "Fawcett, Edgar (1847-1904)" [Person notice "Fawcett, Edgar (1847-1904)"] (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. October 12, 2017. Retrieved March 8, 2022.
Further reading[edit]
- Burt, Daniel S., ed. (2004). The Chronology of American Literature. Houghton Mifflin Company.
External links[edit]
- Edgar Fawcett Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
- Works by Edgar Fawcett at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Edgar Fawcett at Internet Archive
- Works by Edgar Fawcett at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Poems by Fawcett at Sonnets.org
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- 19th-century American poets
- 20th-century American poets
- American male novelists
- American male poets
- Writers from New York City
- Columbia College (New York) alumni
- 19th-century American male writers
- 20th-century American male writers
- Novelists from New York (state)
- Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters