Charles Barnard (writer)
Charles Barnard (1838–1920) was an American reporter, playwright and writer.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, February 13, 1838. He was the son of C. F. Barnard, a clergyman. He was unable to complete his studies to ministry due to bad health, and would work in a florist business.[1] He regularly contributed to a number popular fiction magazines, including The Century Magazine, Smith's Magazine, Scribner's Monthly, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Harper's Young People, Wide Awake and St. Nicholas.[2]
His works include The Soprano (1969), The Tone-Masters (1871), a biography of Camilla Urso by the name of Camilla (1871), Knights of To-Day (1881), The Whistling Buoy (1887) and The County Fair (1888),[3] the latter among which was written with Neil Burgess and later adapted into a film of the same name (1920).[4] His work has been noted as an often comedic avenue into a particularly broad collection of inventions and activities of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, charting perceptions of tools and technologies from electricity[5] and telegraphy[6][7] to common practices of vegetable gardening, the florist business, and fruit growing.[8]
References
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"Barnard, Charles". The Biographical Dictionary of America. Vol. 1. 1906. pp. 214–215.
- ^ Contento, William G.; Stephensen-Payne, Phil (2023). "The FictionMags Index — Barnard, Charles (1838–1920)". The FictionMags Index. Archived from the original on 4 November 2023. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
- ^ Ford, Charles (1 December 1912). "Worker Says Easier Here". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
- ^ Warner, Charles Dudley (2015). The Library of the World's Best Literature: An Anthology in Thirty Volumes (2nd ed.). New York: Bartleby.
- ^ Treen, Kristen (2016). "Stereopticon". In Pryor, Sean; Trotter, David (eds.). Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies. London: Open Humanities Press. pp. 35–51.
- ^ Sterne, Jonathan (2015). "Compression: A Loose History". In Parks, Lisa; Starosielski, Nicole (eds.). Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures. Illinois: University of Illinois Press. pp. 31–52.
- ^ Yandell, Kay (2018). "Corsets with Copper Wire: Victorian America's Cyborg Feminists". Telegraphies: Indigeneity, Identity, and Nation in America's Nineteenth-Century Virtual Realm. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 81–104.
- ^ Seaton, Beverly (1981). "Idylls of Agriculture; Or, Nineteenth-Century Success Stories of Farming and Gardening". Agricultural History. 55 (1): 21–30. JSTOR 3742723.
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