A dictionary of American authors

Name: A dictionary of American authors
Author: Adams, Oscar Fay

Adams, Oscar Fay

American literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries; Authors, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries

=Forney, John Weiss.= _Pa._, 1817-1881. A journalist of Philadelphia
and Washington, of prominence as a politician, and secretary of the
United States Senate, 1861-68. Life of General Hancock; Anecdotes of
Public Men; The New Nobility, a story of England and America; What I
Saw in Texas; A Centennial Commissioner in Europe; Letters from Europe;
Forty Years of American Journalism. _Ap. Har. Lip._

=Forrester, Fanny.= _See Judson, Mrs._

=Forrester, Francis.= _See Wise, Daniel._

=Forry, Samuel.= _Pa._, 1811-1844. A physician and surgeon of New York
city. The Climate of the United States and its Endemic Influences;
Meteorology.

=Fort, George Franklin.= _N. J._, 1809-1872. A governor of New Jersey,
1850-1854. Early History and Antiquities of Freemasonry.

=Fortier, Alcée.= _La._, 1856- ----. An educator of Louisiana,
professor of Romance languages in Tulane University. Le Château
de Chambord; Gabriel d’Ennerich, an historical novelette; Bits of
Louisiana Folk-Lore; Sept Grands Auteurs de xix^e Siècle; Histoire de
la Littérature Française; Louisiana Studies; Louisiana Folk Tales. He
has also annotated college editions of several French texts. _He. Ho.
Hou._

=Forwood, William Stump.= _Md._, 1830-1892. A physician of Darlington,
Maryland. History and Descriptive Account of Mammoth Cave, with Full
Scientific Details of the Eyeless Fishes.

=Fosdick, Charles Austin.= “Harry Castlemon.” _N. Y._, 1842- ----. A
voluminous author of juvenile books, among which The Gunboat Series;
Rocky Mountain Series; Roughing It Series; The Steel Horse, or the
Rambles of a Bicycle, are but a few of the whole number. _Co._

=Fosdick, William Whiteman.= _O._, 1825-1862. A lawyer of Cincinnati,
who published Malmiztic the Toltec, a novel; Ariel and Other Poems.

=Foss, Samuel Walter.= _N. H._, 1858- ----. A writer of popular dialect
and other poems, whose home is in Somerville, Massachusetts. Back
Country Poems; Whiffs from Wild Meadows (verse). _Le._

=Foster, Charles Hubbs.= _N. Y._, 1833-1895. An actor and playwright
of New York city, who wrote more than seventy-five plays, mostly
melodramas, among which are, Twins of London; Twenty Years Dead; The
Chain Gang.

=Foster, Mrs. Hannah [Webster].= _Ms._, 1759-1840. A writer who was the
wife of John Foster, minister at Brighton, Massachusetts, 1784-1827,
and after his death a resident of Montreal. She was the daughter of
Grant Webster, a merchant of Boston, and was probably born in that
city. She wrote The Boarding School; Letters of a Preceptress; but is
remembered chiefly for having been the author of the once famous story,
The Coquette, or the History of Eliza Wharton, which was largely based
upon fact, and passed through more than thirty editions.

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A dictionary of American authors

Adams, Oscar Fay

American literature -- Bio-bibliography -- Dictionaries; Authors, American -- Biography -- Dictionaries

=Forney, John Weiss.= _Pa._, 1817-1881. A journalist of Philadelphia
and Washington, of prominence as a politician, and secretary of the
United States Senate, 1861-68. Life of General Hancock; Anecdotes of
Public Men; The New Nobility, a story of England and America; What I
Saw in Texas; A Centennial Commissioner in Europe; Letters from Europe;
Forty Years of American Journalism. _Ap. Har. Lip._

=Forrester, Fanny.= _See Judson, Mrs._

=Forrester, Francis.= _See Wise, Daniel._

=Forry, Samuel.= _Pa._, 1811-1844. A physician and surgeon of New York
city. The Climate of the United States and its Endemic Influences;
Meteorology.

=Fort, George Franklin.= _N. J._, 1809-1872. A governor of New Jersey,
1850-1854. Early History and Antiquities of Freemasonry.

=Fortier, Alcée.= _La._, 1856- ----. An educator of Louisiana,
professor of Romance languages in Tulane University. Le Château
de Chambord; Gabriel d’Ennerich, an historical novelette; Bits of
Louisiana Folk-Lore; Sept Grands Auteurs de xix^e Siècle; Histoire de
la Littérature Française; Louisiana Studies; Louisiana Folk Tales. He
has also annotated college editions of several French texts. _He. Ho.
Hou._

=Forwood, William Stump.= _Md._, 1830-1892. A physician of Darlington,
Maryland. History and Descriptive Account of Mammoth Cave, with Full
Scientific Details of the Eyeless Fishes.

=Fosdick, Charles Austin.= “Harry Castlemon.” _N. Y._, 1842- ----. A
voluminous author of juvenile books, among which The Gunboat Series;
Rocky Mountain Series; Roughing It Series; The Steel Horse, or the
Rambles of a Bicycle, are but a few of the whole number. _Co._

=Fosdick, William Whiteman.= _O._, 1825-1862. A lawyer of Cincinnati,
who published Malmiztic the Toltec, a novel; Ariel and Other Poems.

=Foss, Samuel Walter.= _N. H._, 1858- ----. A writer of popular dialect
and other poems, whose home is in Somerville, Massachusetts. Back
Country Poems; Whiffs from Wild Meadows (verse). _Le._

=Foster, Charles Hubbs.= _N. Y._, 1833-1895. An actor and playwright
of New York city, who wrote more than seventy-five plays, mostly
melodramas, among which are, Twins of London; Twenty Years Dead; The
Chain Gang.

=Foster, Mrs. Hannah [Webster].= _Ms._, 1759-1840. A writer who was the
wife of John Foster, minister at Brighton, Massachusetts, 1784-1827,
and after his death a resident of Montreal. She was the daughter of
Grant Webster, a merchant of Boston, and was probably born in that
city. She wrote The Boarding School; Letters of a Preceptress; but is
remembered chiefly for having been the author of the once famous story,
The Coquette, or the History of Eliza Wharton, which was largely based
upon fact, and passed through more than thirty editions.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

A dictionary of American authors

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