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A Short Biography of Francis Marion Crawford

Author Name:

Francis Marion Crawford

Born As:

Francis Marion Crawford

Other Names:

Born:

2 Jul 1854

Died:

9 Apr 1909




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Selected Works:

Mr Issacs - 1882
Doctor Claudius - 1883
To Leeward - 1884; actually late - 1883 The second American edition Macmillan  - 1893 is the only one of his novels that Crawford substantively revised
A Roman Singer - 1884
An American Politician - 1884; U S title -page has - 1885
Zoroaster - 1885
A Tale of a Lonely Parish - 1886
Saracinesca - 1887
Marzio's Crucifix - 1887
Paul Patoff - 1887
With the Immortals - 1888
Greifenstein - 1889
Sant Ilario - 1889
A Cigarette -Maker's Romance - 1890
Khaled: A Tale of Arabia - 1891
The Witch of Prague - 1891
The Three Fates - 1892
Don Orsino - 1892
The Children of the King - 1893
Pietro Ghisleri - 1893
Marion Darche - 1893
Katharine Lauderdale - 1894
The Upper Berth - 1894; with By the Waters of Paradise
Love in Idleness - 1894
The Ralstons - 1894; sequel to Katharine Lauderdale
Casa Braccio - 1895; related to Katharine Lauderdale and The Ralstons
Adam Johnstone's Son - 1896
Taquisara - 1896
A Rose of Yesterday - 1897
Corleone - 1897
Via Crucis - 1899
In the Palace of the King - 1900
Marietta - 1901
Cecilia - 1902
Man Overboard! - 1903 - novella
Whosoever Shall Offend - 1904
Soprano - 1905; U S title Fair Margaret
A Lady of Rome - 1906
Arethusa - 1907
The Little City of Hope - 1907
The Primadonna - 1908; sequel to Soprano / Fair Margaret
The Diva's Ruby - 1908; sequel to The Primadonna
The White Sister - 1909
Stradella - 1909
The Undesirable Governess - 1910
Wandering Ghosts; British title: Uncanny Tales

Nonfiction:

Our Silver - 1881 - pamphlet
The Novel: What It Is - 1893
Constantinople - 1895
Bar Harbor - 1896
Ave Roma Immortalis - 1898
Rulers of the South - 1902; - 1905 in the U S as Southern Italy and Sicily and The Rulers of the South
Gleanings from Venetian History - 1905; in the U S as Salvae Venetia and in - 1909 as Venice; the People and the Place

Drama:

In the Palace of the King - 1900; with Lorrimer Stoddard
Francesca da Rimini - 1902  traduction de l'américain en français par Marcel Schwob  Sulliver  - 1996 The English text was not published until - 1980  with introductory matter  by The F Marion Crawford Memorial Society
Evelyn Hastings - 1902 Unpublished typescript discovered in 2008
The White Sister - 1937; with Walter Hackett.
                          
Son of the American sculptor Thomas Crawford and Louisa Cutler Ward, and the nephew of Julia Ward Howe, the American poet.