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Sylvanus Cobb, Jr. (June 5, 1823 – July 20, 1887) was an American writer of popular fiction during the mid-19th century. His work was published in the ''New York Ledger'', ''The Flag of Our Union'', ''The Weekly Novelette'', ''Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion'', and elsewhere. == Brief biography == Cobb was born in Waterville, Maine to Sylvanus Cobb and Eunice Hale Waite. Cobb served in the United States Navy, 1840–ca.1843. He married Jane Head in 1845;〔Cobb, Sylvanus. Marquis Who Was Who in America 1607–1984. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who LLC. Retrieved July 08, 2009.〕 they had two children.〔Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., dead. New York Times, July 21, 1887.〕 He joined the Freemasons in Norway, Maine in 1854.〔Ella Waite Cobb. (A memoir of Sylvanus Cobb, Jr. ) Published for his family, C. L. Peters & son, printers, 1891.〕 He began writing stories around 1850. Frederick Gleason published Cobb's first story, "The Prophet of the Bohmer Wald: a Tale of the Time of Joseph II, Emperor of Germany" in ''The Flag of Our Union''. His work was also published in ''Gleason's Pictorial'' beginning in 1851.〔 Cobb wrote prolifically. He "wrote and sold no less than 120 novels, more than 800 short stories, and found time to prepare some 90,000 manuscript pages of short items to pad out the columns of ... weeklies."〔R. Richard Wohl. Review of: Villains Galore: The Heyday of the Popular Story Weekly by Mary Noel. The Library Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 2 (Apr., 1956), pp. 137–139.〕 Some say he sacrificed quality for quantity. According to one biographer, "Mr. Cobb was a fluent writer, who spent little time in perfecting his style. As he summed up his work he wrote in the 31 years that he contributed to the New York Ledger 89,544 large pages of manuscript."〔George Waldo Browne. Pioneers of popular literature. Granite State magazine, v.3, no.2, Feb. 1907; p.54〕 Others evaluated Cobb as "a prolific writer of sensational tales quite without literary value."〔Oscar Fay Adams. (A dictionary of American authors ), 2nd ed. Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1897.〕 Cobb published under various pseudonyms: * Austin Burdick〔 * Charles Castleton〔Albert Johannsen. (The house of Beadle and Adams and its dime and nickel novels ): the story of a vanished literature. 1950.〕 * Col. Walter B. Dunlap〔 * Enoch Fitzwhistler〔 * Dr. J.H. Robinson〔 * Dr. S. LeCompton Smith〔 * Symus, the Pilgrim〔 * Amos Winslow, Jr.〔 Several of his stories were adapted for the stage, including "The Mystic Bride."〔Thomas Allston Brown. A history of the New York stage from the first performance in 1732 to 1901. Dodd, Mead and company, 1902.〕 His "stories were reprinted many times by other publishers including Street & Smith (Columbia Library); Beadle & Adams; Frederic A. Brady; Elliott, Thomes & Talbot; George W. Studley; Ogilvie (Detective Series); and Donahue (Flashlight Detective Series)."〔J. Randolph Cox. (The dime novel companion: a source book ). Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.〕 Around 1869, Cobb relocated to Hyde Park, Boston, where he lived until his death in 1887. "Mr. Cobb amassed a large fortune by his pen, and built himself a handsome house at Hyde Park. His study was situated in a remote corner of the house in a tower built exclusively for his convenience. There he wrote uninterrupted, surrounded by all the curious odds and ends that he had picked up during his life. He was particularly fond of arms and armor, and his collection of these articles was rare and valuable."〔Introduction to Cobb's posthumously published Orion, the gold beater. H. T. Coates, 1896.〕 Friends included the professional magician Jonathan Harrington. Cobb's portrait was painted by his brother, Darius Cobb.〔Appleton's cyclopædia of American biography. 1888.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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