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STOCKTON, FRANCIS RICHARD (1834–1902)

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STOCKTON, See also:FRANCIS See also:RICHARD (1834–1902) , See also:American novelist, was See also:born in See also:Philadelphia, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 5th of See also:April 1834. He had a high school See also:education; became a skilled See also:wood engraver; wrote for the Philadelphia See also:Morning See also:Post, the New See also:York See also:Hearth and See also:Home, Scribner's Monthly and St See also:Nicholas, of which he became assistant editor in 1873; and about 188o he gave up editorial See also:work for See also:independent authorship. Thereafter he lived in Nutley; New See also:Jersey, in See also:Convent, New Jersey, and of ter 1899 in the See also:Shenandoah Valley, near See also:Charles See also:Town, See also:West See also:Virginia. He died in See also:Washington, D.C. on the loth of April 1902. His fanciful stories for See also:children made him very popular; among them are The Ting-a-See also:Ling Stories (187o), Roundabout Rambles in Lands of Fact and See also:Fancy (1872), What Might Have Been Expected (1874), Tales Out of School (1875), A See also:Jolly Fellowship (188o), The Floating See also:Prince and Other See also:Fairy Tales (1881), The See also:Story of Viteau (1884), Personally Conducted (1889), and See also:Captain See also:Chap (1897). His amusing and See also:original See also:Rudder See also:Grange (1879), a See also:series of sketches rather than a novel, established his reputation with older readers and is his best See also:long work. His See also:peculiar See also:talent was for the See also:short story; and the best examples are the See also:title stories of the volumes The See also:Lady or the See also:Tiger? (1884), one of the most popular of American stories, The See also:Christmas See also:Wreck (1886), The See also:Bee See also:Man of Orn (1887), (also in the latter See also:volume" A See also:Tale of Negative Gravity "and" The Remarkable Wreck of the See also:Thomas Hyke "), and the novelette The Casting Away of Mrs Leeks and Mrs Aleshine (1886), with its sequel The Dusantes (1888). Among his other See also:works of fiction are The See also:Late Mrs Null (1886), The Hundredth Man (1887), AmosKilbright: his Adscititious Experiences, with Other Stories (1888), The See also:Great See also:War See also:Syndicate (1889), The Merry Chanter (189o), Ardis Claverden (1890), The Rudder Grangers Abroad, and Other Stories (1891), The See also:House of Martha (1891), The See also:Squirrel See also:Inn (1891), The Watchmaker's Wife and Other Stories (1893), See also:Pomona's Travels (1894), The Adventures of Captain See also:Horn (1895), with its sequel, Mrs Cliff's Yacht (1896), The Great See also:Stone of See also:Sardis (1898), Kate See also:Bonnet (1902), and The Captain's See also:Toll-See also:Gate (with a memoir by Mrs Stockton, and a bibliography, 1903).

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