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Publishers Weekly List Of Bestselling Novels In The United States In The 1890s
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States from 1895 through 1899, as determined by '' The Bookman'', a New York–based literary journal. Without the international copyright law which came into force in 1891, these volumes could have been printed and published by anyone, the change in this state of affairs made it possible to compile accurate sales figures.''70 Years of Best Sellers: 1895–1965'', A. P. Hackett. Page 91. Notable attempts to compile a list of best-selling books in the United States prior to 1895 include ''The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Taste'' (1950) by James D. Hart. 1895 # ''Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush'' by Ian Maclaren # ''Trilby'' by George du Maurier # ''The Adventures of Captain Horn'' by Frank R. Stockton # ''The Manxman'' by Hall Caine # '' The Princess Aline'' by Richard Harding Davis # ''The Days of Auld Lang Syne'' by Ian Maclaren # '' The Master'' by Israel Zangwill'' # ''The Prisoner of Zenda'' by Anthony Hope # '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bookman (New York City)
''The Bookman'' was a literary journal established in 1895 by Dodd, Mead and Company. It drew its name from the phrase, "I am a book-man," by James Russell Lowell. The phrase, without the hyphen, regularly appeared on the cover and title page of the bound edition. Frank H. Dodd, head of Dodd, Mead and Company, established ''The Bookman'' in 1895. Its first editor was Harry Thurston Peck, who worked on its staff from 1895 to 1906. With the journal's first issue in February 1895, Peck created America's first bestseller list. The lists in ''The Bookman'' ran from 1895 until 1918, and is the only comprehensive source of annual bestsellers in the United States from 1895 to 1912, when ''Publishers Weekly'' began publishing their own lists. In the April 1895 edition, ''The Bookman'''s editors explained the need for an American version of the already established The Bookman (London): "''The Bookman'' has been a great success since its first appearance in London in 1891, and it is beli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Hope
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933), was a British novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered predominantly for only two books: ''The Prisoner of Zenda'' (1894) and its sequel ''Rupert of Hentzau'' (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre known as Ruritanian romance, books set in fictional European locales similar to the novels. ''Zenda'' has inspired many adaptations, most notably the 1937 Hollywood movie of the same name and the 1952 version. Early career and ''Zenda'' Hope was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, Marlborough College and Balliol College, Oxford. In an academically distinguished career at Oxford he obtained first-class honours in Classical Moderations (Literis Graecis et Latinis) in 1882 and in Literae Humaniores ('Greats') in 1885. Hope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Damnation Of Theron Ware
''The Damnation of Theron Ware'' (first published in England as ''Illumination'') is an 1896 novel by American author Harold Frederic. Set in upstate New York, the novel presents a portrait of 19th-century provincial United States, the religious life of its ethnic groups, and its intellectual and artistic culture. It is written in a realistic style. According to ''Publishers Weekly ''Publishers Weekly'' (''PW'') is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Magazine of B ...'', it was the fifth-Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels in the United States in the 1890s, best-selling book in the United States in 1896. Plot summary Theron Ware is a promising young Methodist pastor recently assigned to a congregation is small town in the Adirondack Mountains, which Frederic modeled after Utica, New York. His education has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (August 31, 1844January 28, 1911) was an early feminist American author and intellectual who challenged traditional Christian beliefs of the afterlife, challenged women's traditional roles in marriage and family, and advocated clothing reform for women. In 1868, three years after the Civil War ended, she published ''The Gates Ajar'', which depicted the afterlife as a place replete with the comforts of domestic life and where families would be reunited—along with family pets—through eternity. In her 40s, Phelps broke convention again when she married a man 17 years her junior. Later in life she urged women to burn their corsets. Her later writing focused on feminine ideals and women's financial dependence on men in marriage. She was the first woman to present a lecture series at Boston University. During her lifetime she was the author of 57 volumes of fiction, poetry and essays. In all of these works, she challenged the prevailing view that wom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Singular Life
''A Singular Life'' is a novel published in 1895 by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. It was first published in serial form in ''The Atlantic Monthly'' from January through October 1895, and published in novel form in late 1895. It was the fourth highest best-selling book in the United States in 1896. Hackett, Alice Payne. Seventy Years of Best Sellers 1895-1965', p. 92 (1967) (the lists for 1895-1912 in this volume are derived from the lists published in ''The Bookman (New York)'')(6 November 1895)A Good Theological Novel (book review) ''The New York Times'' (positive review)''The Atlantic Monthly''. Volume 75, Issue 447, January 1895 (first installment; note that the work itself is copyrighted 1894, although it did not begin appearing in print until the January 1895 i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Parker
Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet (23 November 1862 – 6 September 1932), known as Gilbert Parker, Canadian novelist and British politician, was born at Camden East, Addington, Ontario, the son of Captain Joseph Parker, R.A. Education and employment He was educated as a teacher in Ottawa and taught at Marsh Hill and Bayside schools in Hastings County before becoming a teacher at the Ontario Institute for the Deaf and Dumb (in Belleville, Ontario) in 1882. From there he went on to lecture at Trinity College. In 1886, he went to Australia, and for a while became associate editor of the '' Sydney Morning Herald''. He also traveled extensively in the Pacific, Europe, Asia, Egypt, the South Sea Islands and subsequently in northern Canada. In the early nineties he began to gain a growing reputation in London as a writer of romantic fiction. Published works Novels The best of his novels are those in which he first took for his subject the history and life of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seats Of The Mighty
''The Seats of the Mighty'' is a novel published in 1896 by Gilbert Parker. It was first published in serial form in ''The Atlantic'' starting in March 1895, and released in book form in 1896. It was the third highest best-selling book in the United States in 1896.Alice Payne HackettSeventy Years of Best Sellers 1895-1965 p. 92 (1967) (the lists for 1895-1912 in this volume are derived from the lists published in ''The Bookman (New York)'') It is a historical novel depicting the English conquest of Quebec with James Wolfe and the Marquis de Montcalm as two of the characters. It was adapted into a play by late 1896(28 November 1896)THE SEATS OF THE MIGHTY; Gilbert Parker's Play Produced in Washington by H. Beerbohm Tree ''The New York Times'' and a silent film in 1914 starring Lionel Barrymore. References External links ''The Seats of the Mighty''full text at Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg (PG) is a Virtual volunteering, volunteer effort to digitize and archive cult ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was a British-American novelist and playwright. She is best known for the three children's novels ''Little Lord Fauntleroy'' (published in 1885–1886), '' A Little Princess'' (1905), and '' The Secret Garden'' (1911). Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, Manchester, England. After her father died in 1853, when Frances was 3 years old, the family fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling in New Market, Tennessee. Frances began her remunerative writing career there at age 19 to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines. In 1870, her mother died. In Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1873 she married Swan Burnett, who became a medical doctor. Their first son Lionel was born a year later. The Burnetts lived for two years in Paris, where their second son Vivian was born, before returning to the United States to live in Washington, D.C. Burnet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Lady Of Quality
''A Lady of Quality'' is a novel published in 1896 by Frances Hodgson Burnett that was the second highest best-selling book in the United States in 1896.Alice Payne HackettSeventy Years of Best Sellers 1895-1965 p. 92 (1967) (the lists for 1895-1912 in this volume are derived from the lists published in ''The Bookman (New York)'') It was the first of series of successful historical novels by Burnett. In addition to a play version of the novel, which debuted in 1897 featuring Julia Arthur,(2 November 1897)A New Stage Heroine: Julia Arthur as Clorinda Wildairs, a Strange and Vehement Young Lady of Long Ago ''The New York Times'' silent-film adaptations were released in 1913 and 1924. References External links ''A Lady of Quality''full text at Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Hopkinson Smith
Francis Hopkinson Smith (October 23, 1838 – April 7, 1915) was an American author, artist and engineer. He built the foundation for the Statue of Liberty, wrote many stories and received awards for his paintings. F. Hopkinson Smith was the great uncle of American architect, author and photographer G. E. Kidder Smith (1913-1997). Biography Smith was born in Baltimore, Maryland on October 23, 1838, a descendant of Francis Hopkinson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He graduated from the Boys' Latin School of Maryland. Smith became a contractor in New York City and did much work for the federal government, including the stone ice-breaker at Bridgeport, Connecticut, the jetties at the mouth of the Connecticut River, the foundation for the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, the Race Rock Lighthouse (southwest of Fishers Island, New York) and many life-saving stations. His vacations were spent sketching in the White Mountains, in Cuba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Grogan
''Tom Grogan'' is a novel published in 1896 by Francis Hopkinson Smith. It was the bestselling book in the United States in 1896 according to ''Publishers Weekly''. The novel was adapted into a play in 1896. An art print of the book cover is held in the Library of Congress. Plot An 1898 literature guide provided this synopsis of the plot: ''Tom Grogan'', by F. Hopkinson Smith (1895.) is a spirited and most entertaining and ingenious study of laboring life in Staten Island, New York. Tom Grogan was a stevedore, who died from the effects of an injury. With a family to support, his widow conceals the fact of her husband's death, saying that he is sick in a hospital, that she may assume both his name and business. She is thenceforth known to all as 'Tom Grogan'. A sturdy, cheery, capable Irishwoman, she carries on the business with an increasing success, which arouses the jealous opposition of some rival stevedores and walking delegates of the labor union, which she has refused to j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maarten Maartens
Maarten Maartens, pen name of ''Jozua Marius Willem van der Poorten Schwartz'' (15 August 1858 in Amsterdam – 3 August 1915 in Doorn), was a Dutch writer, who wrote in English. He was quite well known at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, in both the UK and the US, but he was soon forgotten after his death. Biography The author was born on 15 August 1858 in Amsterdam as Jozua Marius Willem Schwartz. His friends and relations called him Joost. His father August Ferdinand Carl Schwartz (1817–1870) was a vicar at the Scottish Missionary Church. Jozua's father was originally Jewish, but had converted to Christianity. He became a clergyman with the special task of convincing other Jews to take the same step. In 1864 the family Schwartz moved to London, where Jozua's father started missionary work among the London Jews. Jozua owed his skill in the English language to this stay in England. When Jozua's father died in 1870, the family at first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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