Francis Channing Woodworth (1812 – June 5, 1859) was a printer, vicar and a writer.
Francis Channing Woodworth | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1812 Colchester, Connecticut, United States |
| Died | June 5, 1859 |
| Other names | Theodore Tinker |
| Occupation | Writer |
He was born at Colchester, Connecticut, the nephew of Samuel Woodworth,[1] and began his career as a printer. After eight years he became a preacher, but quit because of health issues.[2] Thereafter he became a writer of juvenile literature,[3] sometimes using pseudonym Theodore Tinker.[3] He was editor of a magazine called The Youth's Cabinet, which his brother D. Austin Woodworth published.[4] Francis died while sailing to New York from Savannah, Georgia.[3]
Bibliography
edit- Stories for little folks[1]
- Stories about birds and beasts (1850)
- Stories about the country (1850)
- A wheat-sheaf: gathered from our own fields (1850)
- Our own fields[2] (1850)
- The peddler's boy, or, I'll be somebody (1851)
- A peep at the beasts (1851)
- Stories about birds: with pictures to match (1851)
- Uncle Frank's home stories[1] (1851) 6 volumes
- Youth's book of gems[2] (1851)
- The boy's story book (1852)
- A budget of Willow Lane stories (1852)
- The little mischief-maker: and other stories (1852)
- A peep at the beasts: with twenty engravings (1852)
- The poor organ-grinder: and other stories (1852)
- Uncle Frank's peep at the beasts (1852)
- Uncle Frank's picture gallery[2] (1852)
- The wonderful letter-bag of kit curious: with tinted illustrations (1852)
- First lessons in botany (1853)
- Wonders of the insect world: with illustrative engravings (1853)
- The boy's and girl's country book: with illustrations (1854)
- The boy's story book (1854)
- Buds and blossoms from our own garden (1854)
- Jack Mason: the old sailor (1855)
- The young American's life of Fremont (1856)
- Stories about the country: with illustrations (1857)
- The boy's and girl's country book (1858)
- The picture A.B.C. book with stories (1859)
References
edit- ^ a b c Adams, Oscar Fay (1904), A Dictionary of American Authors, Houghton, Mifflin, p. 435, ISBN 9780781208420.
- ^ a b c d Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1889), Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 6, D. Appleton and Company, p. 609.
- ^ a b c Cushing, William (1885), Initials and pseudonyms: a dictionary of literary disguises, vol. 1, T. Y. Crowell & co., p. 201.
- ^ Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden foundations, vol. 65, 1961, p. 566.
External links
edit- Works by Francis Channing Woodworth at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Francis Channing Woodworth at the Internet Archive
- Works by Francis Channing Woodworth at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
